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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley may or may not be elected to the U.S. Senate tomorrow. What difference will it make, one way or the other?
Much of the frenzied activity took place this week behind closed doors (and most decidedly not on C-SPAN), as health care reform entered its final negotiating phase.
Summary: Coakley is struggling because she is perceived to be running to join the "establishment". She has allowed Brown and the Republicans, who ac...
As the Monday holiday celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday approaches, perhaps the Coakley team would be wise to remind the state's voters of the principles that they and the Democratic Party stand for.
Dems should be throwing everything they've got into this race. Voters, thanks to the economy, are fickle and angrily unpredictable.
In one year, just before Barack Obama's first inaugural anniversary, Democrats have gone from superpower status to struggling to beat back anything moderate or Republican in philosophy.
Leaders of the Tea Party movement are throwing their weight behind Republican Scott Brown's campaign for Ted Kennedy's vacated Senate seat. This is a significant departure from the movement's strategy thus far.
The Massachusetts special election for Ted Kennedy's seat is just over a week away, and Republicans are pulling out all the stops to win or at least come close. A Martha Coakley loss would be nothing short of devastating.
Just to make sure everyone gets this straight, The New York Times posted a correction of their correction today.
In recent days, women's advocates have been strikingly hushed, even as women's health is under assault in the health reform debate. It begs the question: who will be our modern day Eleanor Roosevelt?
With the icy Connecticut River behind an antique Victorian home, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) announced to supporters, reporters and camera crews that he would not seek re-election.
Here's my own brief look at some of the more notable celebrity deaths of 2009. As always, they fall into two categories: "The Good Riddance List" and "The Folks We'll Miss List."
Welcome back to my annual outright theft of The McLaughlin Group's awards categories for the past year in politics.
Accepting people for who they are seems to me to be what Christmas ought to be about. As a nation, we still aren't doing that with gay men and women in the military services.
Instead of sending more "Kill the Bill" emails, we need to turn our attention now to leaders in the House, insisting they stick to their guns and improve on what the Senate has passed.
Obama's victory ahead in signing major health care legislation would have been cleaner, stronger, better with Ted Kennedy at his side.
