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What Passes For Bragging Rights In The Massachusetts Governor’s Race
From a Deval Patrick campaign press release headlined, “FIVE THINGS REPUBLICAN CHARLES BAKER WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT HIS RECORD ON PROPERTY TAXES.” (Two things this press release does tell you about Patrick’s strategy: Label Baker a Republican as often as … Continue reading
Dead Blogging The Cape Wind Gubernatorial Debate
As Bob Keough (late of MassINC and currently of the Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs office) happily remarked afterward, (paraphrase here) who woulda thunk that the first gubernatorial debate would be about Cape Wind? But it was. And it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Wind, Charlie Baker, Deval Patrick, Jill Stein, MassINC, Tim Cahill
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MA Gov Race Social Media Scorecard
Conventional wisdom says in political campaigns nowadays, the Internet diversifies while television amplifies. The TV air war in the Massachusetts gubernatorial race has so far been dominated by the National Governors Association’s $2 million ad blitz targeting mostly independent Tim … Continue reading
Republican Gunsels Association
For the past couple of months, the Republican Governors Association has run a relentless stream of TV spots sandblasting Tim Cahill, the Independent candidate for Massachusetts governor. Their latest effort is here. Not content with just pummeling Cahill, the RGA … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Baker, Deval Patrick, Republican Governors Association, Tim Cahill
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From the Mailbag . . .
No sooner did the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider read this front-page piece in Monday’s New York Times headlined “Re-energized, G.O.P. Widens Midterm Effort,” than two – count ’em, two – Republican fundraising letters poured into the Global Worldwide Headquarters. (BTW, … Continue reading