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ABC News: Boston’s Charlotte Golar Richie Not A Major Mayoral Candidate
Boston Magazine’s redoubtable David Bernstein might rank former state representative Charlotte Golar Richie #2 in his list of Boston mayoral hopefuls, and the Boston Globe might report big names coalescing around her campaign, but that still doesn’t give her any … Continue reading
ABC’s The Note Takes Note Of The Brown-Warren Race
Yesterday ABC’s political digest The Note parachuted into the donnybrook between Scott Brown (R-Have You Met My Wife?) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Why Can’t We Be More Like the Chinese?) and delivered an entirely uncritical overview of the hottest U.S. Senate … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion . . . Or $6 Billion . . . Or $9.8 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Everyone In The Pool Edition)
It’s an embarrassment of – not pandas – but TV spots in the presidential bakeoff betwen Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Call the roll (via ABC’s The Note): OBAMA ADS: ROMNEY’S OUTSOURCING, FEE HIKES. From ABC’s Devin Dwyer: President Obama’s campaign … Continue reading
Real People Say Elizabeth Warren Is Good People
The ads are really flying now for U.S. Senate wannabe Elizabeth Warren (D-Alright, Lay Off That “Professor” Stuff). Her latest, just out today (via ABC’s The Note): The hardworking staff especially likes 1) the guy with the Harley-Davidson moustache, … Continue reading
Our First Quadrennial Hawkie Awards
The hardworking staff is pleased to announce Campaign Outsider’s Hawkie Awards, a quadrennial exercise in highlighting the most ridiculous aspects of the Iowa caucuses, outside of the fact that they have any impact at all. Regardless, nunc est bibendum: I’ll … Continue reading
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Mitt Romney: 100% Irony Deficient
From ABC’s The Note yesterday: MITT ROMNEY RALLY GETS OCCUPIED. A dispatch from ABC’s Emily Friedman from Clive, Iowa: For the first time since launching his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney got a visit from Occupy Wall Street protestors during a rally Monday … Continue reading
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Quote o’ the Day (Sarah Palin Edition)
( . . . at least for now, although it will be tough to top this one.) The hardworking staff realizes that this is a very long QotD, but really, it’s worth it. From ABC News’s The Note: WHAT ABOUT … Continue reading
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