American Athens

Though the timing and location were released earlier, Mitt Romney’s choice of Michigan — and specifically the Henry Ford Museum — to start his Presidential campaign made some news yesterday on the internets. This morning, the Globe’s Scott Helman has an article about the announcement and the history of the Romney name in politics.
Romney had […]

A few years back, when I was a freshman in college, one of my first friends made was a libertarian. He wasn’t a “libertarian when convenient” like so many of our chirping pundits or Republican congresspeople, but a legitimate libertarian with whom I spent hours arguing about whether or not the government should continue to […]

We’ll be getting back into the swing of more frequent, yet still infrequent, posting in the coming days. Lee is spending some time in Egypt, hopefully trying to avoid causing an international incident, and will return in a couple weeks. Meanwhile, I’ve moved from frat-row in Allston to the greener pastures of West Roxbury/Roslindale (no […]

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To see the awesome picture he found from Sunday’s Homophobia Rally. And, no, the optical illusion isn’t that the Governor is actually in Massachusetts, but that’s a good first guess.

CNN reported a few minutes ago that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, every conservative’s favorite straw-liberal, had indeed been unanimously selected by her caucus to become Speaker of the House. I am quite happy with the news, because despite the Right’s attempts to turn her into the Liberal bogey(wo)man of their nightmares, she seems a good choice. […]

This morning’s Globe contains an AP article in which Sen. Joe Lieberman says that he will begin the session caucusing with the Democrats, but “won’t be ruling out” switching allegiances. He will be “beholden to no political group except the people of Connecticut and, of course, my conscience.” With the Senate at 51-49, and Sen. […]

I have no eloquence to bring to this day, no long posts remarking on the great sacrifices and great victories wrought from the men and women of our armed forces. Nothing I could write would encompass the immense debt we owe to all those who have served our country. They are heroes not just in […]

Our esteemed executive has taken the opportunity, while spending a few hours actually in the commonwealth he was elected to govern, to … well … govern, kind of. In what has become something of a ritual, Willard has picked up his pen and overruled the Legislature again, freezing state spending. This move comes after the […]

Tonight was a great night for Massachusetts and the country. We’ve got a governor who respects his constituents and who has a positive agenda to move the state forward. We’ve returned a mostly progressive Congressional delegation to Washington. And they’ll return to a House of Representatives in which they’ll be part of the majority, which […]

Nothing personal against the Senator from Rhode Island, but I am quite glad that he’ll not hold that position after the next couple months. MSNBC (can’t stand Wolf and Fox News is for gloating puposes only) reports that Sheldon Whitehouse has defeated the actually-moderate Lincoln Chafee in their race. Sen Chafee, I really did like […]

Totally ridiculous and un-important, but the race in Virginia’s 5th Congressional district is between Virgil Goode and Al Weed, making this the Goode-Weed election. Awesome. Also, I’m sorry for bringing this to your attention, but we’re excited right now and so we’re laughing at things we might not usually.
More importantly: Brown and Casey are projected […]

MSNBC REPORTS: DEVAL PATRICK WINS MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR RACE.

It might not matter to anyone else, but Lee and I are ecstatic that Bernie Sanders is, according to Fox News (we’re gluttons for punishment), going to be the next Junior Senator from Vermont. As my history professor once said about Bernie, “Everyone in the House gets to eat lunch with someone. Everyone. Except Bernie. […]

Just in case you stumble upon this site before myDD, Chris Bowers put up some Senate numbers he’d heard. Here they are:
VA: Webb 52-47 Allen
RI: Whitehouse 53-46 Chafee
PA: Casey 57-42 Santorum
OH: Brown 57-43 DeWine
NJ: Menendez 52-45 Kean, Jr.
MT: Tester 53-46 Burns
MO: McCaskill 50-48 Talent
MD: Cardin 53-46 Steele
TN: Corker 51-48 Ford
AZ: Kyl 50-46 Pederson
So that […]

After all these many months, the moment of truth is fast approaching. After all the speeches, debates, ads and flyers, the candidates basically wait for the next 36 hours. There’s not much more they can do. Even those of us who’ve worked from inside or outside campaigns have only a few things we can do. […]

I know I live in Allston, and BU kids aren’t representative of the town, and I think there’s less racism in the northeast than in most places (Kerry Healey’s Prisoner’s for Deval and those who would be swayed by her race-baiting ads aside), but when I step outside my door and see a white guy […]

Earlier this week, we had encouraging electoral news from Suffolk and SurveyUSA, with Deval Patrick enjoying a healthy lead over his challengers, with the second place Kerry closer to third place Christy Mihos than Patrick. Today a new Boston Globe poll gives more good news for Patrick, as he garners a majority of voters (54%) […]

Nothing surprising, nor even particularly noteworthy, in this morning’s Globe editorial, in which they endorse the five Democratic candidates for the US House that are actually facing competition. The piece does go so far as to imply that it really wouldn’t matter whether or not they were facing Republican challengers worth considering, the specter of […]

Since Deval Patrick’s Democratic primary win last month, there have been nine polls. In seven of them, Patrick has polled over 50%, the two in which he did not were Suffolk University polls. Well, today, Suffolk released their latest and he’s now broken 50% in this poll as well: 53% to be exact. In those […]