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End of the road for Hillary?

Posted in Nelson Benton, Presidential race on Mar 4th, 2008 Comments

We should know tonight.
There are primaries in Vermont and Rhode Island, but all eyes will be on Texas and Ohio where the vast majority of delegate spots are at stake. Polls out this morning showed New York Sen. Hillary Clinton holding onto a slight lead in both. And her words and demeanor at appearances Monday [...]

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Debate season on hiatus

Posted in Nelson Benton, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Feb 29th, 2008 Comments

Won’t you miss those debates?
For months now Republicans and Democrats have been slugging it out on live TV. And the ratings have been surprisingly good even when they’ve been aired on relatively hard-to-find channels like MSNBC.
They allowed John McCain to show how tough he can be, putting Mitt Romney is his place for flip-flopping on [...]

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All aboard the Obama Express

Posted in Nelson Benton, Presidential race on Feb 12th, 2008 Comments

Barack Obama’s presidential bid, viewed as little more than a freshman senator’s pipe dream just a year ago, is beginning to assume the air of inevitability.
Unless the pollsters suffer another New Hampshire-style meltdown, it appears the lawmaker from Illinois will emerge from today’s so-called Potomac Primary (Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia) stronger than [...]

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Mayors unite

Posted in Massachusetts politics, Municipal meltdown, Nelson Benton, Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2008 Comments

We’re drifting towards fiscal failure.
That’s according to Amesbury Mayor Thatcher Kezer who made the comment at the start of a meeting Monday between Merrimack Valley mayors and the Eagle-Tribune’s editorial board.
The municipal chief executives want two things — more money and the tools with which to better manage their cities.
Unfortunately for them, voters are already [...]

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Illegal immigration: How big an issue?

Posted in 6th District, Massachusetts politics, Nelson Benton, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2008 Comments

Outrage over the more liberal provisions of the bipartisan immigration bill put forward last year had everyone from Harry Reid to John McCain to George Bush running for cover.
Yet here we are less than a year later and McCain is leading the GOP pack despite opponent Mitt Romney’s best efforts to paint him as soft [...]

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But how will it play in Peoria?

Posted in Massachusetts politics, Nelson Benton, Presidential race on Jan 29th, 2008 Comments

Much is being made of the Kennedy family’s anointing of Barack Obama as the candidate best suited to follow in JFK’s footsteps.
Sen. Ted Kennedy, who’s long since given up his dream of becoming the second Kennedy brother to occupy the White House, was at his rip-roaring best Monday as he declared Obama “ready to be [...]

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“Massachusetts is on the move”

Posted in Massachusetts politics, Nelson Benton on Jan 24th, 2008 Comments

That was the mantra for Gov. Deval Patrick’s State of the State speech tonight, repeated five times in the first half of a speech meant to inspire the Legislature into giving him his budget and the means of paying for it.
At the other end of the half-hour speech came several choruses of “the cost of [...]

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Come on down!

Posted in Nelson Benton, Presidential race on Jan 23rd, 2008 Comments

Though he remains a serious contender for the GOP nomination, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has become a favorite target of his fellow politicians, media pundits and late-night talk show hosts. David Letterman has a new segment devoted to the Mittster, and his testy exchange with AP reporter Glen Johnson (formerly of the Salem News, [...]

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Once again, it’s the economy

Posted in Nelson Benton, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2008 Comments

It’s the stupid candidate who’s not talking about the economy these days.
Stock markets were plunging in Asia this morning — another reminder of the precarious state of the U.S. economy.
Little wonder those overseas investors are worried. They finance a large portion of the U.S. debt simply because they rely on American consumers to purchase what [...]

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Another Ogonowski run

Posted in 5th District race, Massachusetts politics, Nelson Benton, Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2008 Comments

It’s says something about the sad state of the Massachusetts Republican Party that an also-ran in last fall’s 5th District congressional election can be touted as a credible opponent for incumbent U.S. Sen. John Kerry.
Though he’s been in office since 1985, Kerry should be vulnerable on any number of issues. (Like taking an unofficial two-year [...]

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