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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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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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He doesn't officially have an opponent yet, but congressional candidate Rick Green has released a new ad showing him swimming across the Merrimack River – fully clothed — to demonstrate how bad traffic is in Lowell. Green, a Republican from Pepperell, appears in the ad with his brother, Mike Green,
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A political committee supporting the state's so-called Bathroom Bill in Massachusetts raised 17 times more money during the first eight months of 2018 than a committee trying to persuade voters to repeal it. The Yes on 3 committee also has 35 times more cash on hand about two
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By Katie Lannan STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE As he runs at the top of the Republican party ticket in Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker is supporting the rest of the GOP's statewide slate, he said Friday.
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Corporations still can't donate directly to political campaigns for state office in Massachusetts and unions can still give as much as $15,000, under a ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Bu the U.S. Supreme Court may have the ultimate say.
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[Editor's Note: The vote percentages of the 2014 Republican primary have been corrected in this story. A previous version inadvertently gave the vote totals from the state convention that year, not the primary.] Scott Lively, a conservative Protestant pastor, was polling at more than 35 percent against Governor
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Boston city councilor Ayanna Pressley upended liberal U.S. Representative Michael Capuana (D-Somerville) with an appeal to racial identity politics and a promise to try to abolish the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Pressley beat the 10-term congressman 59-41 percent in the Seventh Congressional District on Tuesday. She is
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