Moving on from Congress to jobs-you-get-because-you-were-in-Congress is obviously nothing new, and totally bipartisan. There is a difference between joining a lobbying firm (former Sen. Scott Brown) and joining a think tank (former Sens. Joe Lieberman and Jon Kyl), but there is a revolving door similarity. Serve in Congress, and you probably have a bit of [...]
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Scott Brown Out, Will Tagg Romney Jump In?
WILL TAGG run? Calls for Romney, 42, to join in the short campaign to replace Secretary of State John F. Kerry have increased since the Herald first reported heavyweight Republicans are urging both Romney and his mother, Ann, to get in. The eldest son of former governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney already has statewide [...]
Ben Affleck on Kerry’s Senate Seat: “One Never Knows”
RIGHT NOW Scott Brown is leading Democrats by a mile in Massachusetts, as a recent WBUR poll showed, also revealing holding Kerry’s seat after a placeholder is appointed against Brown will require a smart campaign by a good candidate. The closest Democrat to Brown in popularity is Martha Coakley, who ran a horrible race last [...]
Bill Clinton’s Email Pitch for Elizabeth Warren
WHAT BETTER time to send out a fundraising pitch? After Scott Brown’s over the top debate performance, and on the big debate day happening in Colorado. President Clinton’s email text is below. Most people don’t think of Massachusetts as a swing state. But electing a Democrat at the top of the ticket isn’t enough. This [...]
Scott Brown Names Scalia as Model Justice, Crowd Explodes [Video]
“Excuse me, I’m not a student in your classroom,” he told the Harvard Law School professor. [Boston Globe] THE WORD “independent” came out of Scott Brown‘s mouth as many times as he could think to fit it in. However, that didn’t stand out as much as his belligerence that makes a lie out of his [...]
Warren Leads Brown by 2 Points on Debate Night Monday
TONIGHT’S ANOTHER debate in Massachusetts. The latest poll shows Warren up 46% to 44%, which is within the margin of error. From NPR’s WBUR: More people agree with Warren on the key issues that matter to them than they do with Brown (45 to 39 percent), and more voters still believe Warren is the best [...]
Warren Responds to Scott Brown’s Character Assassination
ONE THING that happens when a good candidate starts losing a grip on an election is that he or she is forced to go against their own image. That’s happening in Massachusetts. Scott Brown has always had a nice guy image going for him. Up against it in the polls he’s decided to go nuclear, [...]
Scott Brown Staffers Caught on Tape: “Indian War Whoop” – “Tomahawk Chop”
STAY CLASSY Scott Brown. After Scott Brown released ads once again attacking Elizabeth Warren on her heritage, the above video surfaced. Brown’s deputy Chief of Staff Greg Casey and Constituent Service Counsel Jack Richard, and GOP operative Brad Garrett are pictured in the video, NewsCenter 5′s Janet Wu confirmed. It’s gotten very ugly in Massachusetts [...]
Sen. Reid Forces Scott Brown to Face Elizabeth Warren [Full Video]
“Professor Warren claimed she was a Native American, a person of color — and as you can see, she is not.” – Sen. Scott Brown DID YOU get to see the debate? If not, you can watch the full debate below. Thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, that is. Reid closed down the Senate [...]
Elizabeth Warren, Fighter, Shows Signs of Surge
A NEW Massachusetts poll reveals whatever drift the Warren campaign was reportedly experiencing may have been righted. The survey of Bay State voters conducted Sept. 6-13 by the Western New England University Polling Institute through a partnership with The Republican and MassLive.com, shows Warren leading over Brown, 50 to 44 percent, among likely voters. [h/t [...]
Charlie Cook: 300,000 Obama Voters Would have to Switch to Scott Brown for Elizabeth Warren to Lose
MASSACHUSETTS IS a “Democratic state,” said Charlie Cook on “Morning Joe.” Yes, it will be close all the way to the end, but Chuck Todd agreed. We all may wake up to an 8-point win by Elizabeth Warren, because it’s a state that traditionally votes Democratic and it’s a presidential election year.
Elizabeth Warren and Those Laughable Squishy Centrists
POLITICO OFFERS a prime example today of why more women don’t run for office. The headline above says it all. Written by Maggie Haberman, the piece begins with a typical caption underneath stories about women in politics, which feeds off female candidates for sport. “Some believe…” notes the picture caption, that Warren is a “high [...]
Scott Brown Demands
“We respect Vicki Kennedy’s decision but we regret that we cannot accept a debate invitation from someone who plans to endorse Scott Brown’s opponent,” Brown Campaign Manager Jim Barnett said in a statement. “The Kennedy Institute cannot hold itself out as a nonpartisan debate sponsor while the president of its board of trustees gets involved [...]
The $6.9 Million Woman
Warren’s astonishing first-quarter haul put her in line with what many presidential candidates raised, and exceeded what she had raised in any previous quarter — including the last three months of 2011, when she raked in $5.7 million. The campaign said more than 30,000 people from 350 Massachusetts towns had contributed since the start of [...]
Frantic ‘War on Women’ Media Defense by Republicans
A word of caution about what you’ll be reading from now until November. An example is seen in an op-ed on Politico alleging that “Bay State not buying ‘war on women.’” It’s written by a woman associated with the Independent Women’s Voice, which is run by Kellyanne Conway, who also was hired by Newt Gingrich. [...]
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