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Little things don't always turn a campaign, but sometimes they do. Massachusetts Democrats on Friday were planning to hold a rally in Lowell for Third Congressional District candidate Lori Trahan. They were missing just one thing … Lori Trahan. The state party chairman took the hit, saying he scheduled
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Rick Green, the Republican candidate for the Massachusetts 3rd Congressional district, which Niki Tsongas is vacating, is in some sense a modern version of the Horatio Alger story. He has the Midas touch. Whatever he has tried has turned to gold. An Air Force brat whose father was a pilot,
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When one of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers, Lawrence Kudlow, said in June that the federal budget deficit "is coming down," the Democrats and the press — apologies for the redundancy — accused him of lying. The Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, issued
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Jay Gonzalez has done two smart things this past week. The Democratic nominee for governor may be far behind Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker in the polls, but for a few days, at least, he has had him on the defensive.
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The next time you hear liberal Democrats talking about how much they care about the rights and wishes of victims and the oppressed, think about what some of them connected to a prominent Democratic U.S. senator did to a woman now accusing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
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Andy Card has always come across as a decent person. But the former Bush aide's prescription for American politics makes us grateful that his preferred types of candidates aren't in power anymore. Gone, we hope, are the days when the likes of George H.W. Bush,
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I attended a Catholic seminary from 1978 to 1980 and … No, I don't have any lurid stories to share.
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A recent poll shows Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts leading the 2020 Democratic presidential primary field in neighboring New Hampshire. The New York Times is following her encouragingly around early-voting Nevada. Maybe it's time, though, to start paying some more skeptical attention to Warren. The former Harvard Law
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