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Tom Joyce is a seasoned journalist and political commentator with a rich background in covering politics, sports, and pop culture. Since 2019, Tom has been a prominent contributor to NewBostonPost.
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Halifax resident Summer Schmaling, who is running for state representative as a Republican in the Twelfth Plymouth District, recently received the backing of a former member of the state Legislature. Schmaling, who is running against incumbent state Representative Kathleen LaNatra (D-Kingston), earned the backing of Geoff Diehl, a Whitman Republican
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Democrats dominate the Massachusetts Senate, and that supermajority won't change regardless of the outcomes of this November's general election. Still, a marginal gain or loss is possible either major party. At stake is the Democrats' current nine-to-one majority. Democrats currently have 36 of the 40
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Democrats are voting early in Maine in big numbers. In Maine, more than 133,000 people have already voted using absentee ballots, and the overwhelming majority of early voters are Democrats, as The Associated Press reports.
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Is Joe Kennedy III running for office? No, but he wants you to give him money.
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Will a Republican from New England win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives this upcoming November? Maybe not, according to The Cook Political report. The publication's most recent U.S. House ratings show the races in the country editors think could be at least somewhat
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Whom will Massachusetts's Republican governor Charlie Baker support in the 2020 presidential general election? That's unclear, but it's clear there is at least one candidate he won't vote for: his party's nominee. Baker told reporters on Wednesday, October 14 that
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If you believe the polls, then former vice president Joe Biden has a double-digit lead in the Granite State this year. A recent poll from Suffolk University and The Boston Globe has Biden up 51 percent to 41 percent over Republican President Donald Trump. Additionally, 3 percent of voters were
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Recreational marijuana will be legal for the adult population in Vermont. The Democratic supermajority in the state legislature passed bills to legalize marijuana in the state last week, and the state's Republican governor Phil Scott says he will allow it to pass without his signature.