Where Scott Brown is Coming From…
I wonder how much Brown can successfully repel right wing pressure and carve out a more middle-ground, independent role just by virtue of his sex appeal.
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Kissing Charlie
Now that's a highly charged meme to take into Campaign '10! Obama as the kiss of death.
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Friday Your Turn: Baaaaad to the Bone
What is it about the "demon sheep" that is causing so much buzz?
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Campaign ’10 Mood Music
A Twitter follower tweeted me this picture he took of Senator Schumer at a rally yesterday at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. ...The picture, though, seems to go beyond the immediate issue to address the larger public mood heading into the election season.
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What Was 60
After the Coakley blow out and a party fretting all night on cable news about circular firing squads, wither the Democrats?
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Scott Brown: The End of the End
Out of all the photos of Ted Kennedy's memorial service and funeral, this marked the end of the end. Or so one thought, until tonight's election for his Senate seat.
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Brown/Clavin vs. Coakley/Obama (Or: Where Everybody Knows Your Name)
I was interested in the Brown campaign's PR strategy on Sunday to counter-program Obama, John Kerry and Victoria Reggie Kennedy's appearance with Coakley. Perhaps the most clever slice of local populism came in the person of John Ratzenberger. Just to look at "Cliff" is to think of him as...
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Real Men for Brown
It feels like a gender (manly-man) and class (hard hat) bias is playing through the Brown - Coakley contest in Massachusetts.
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Model Candidates
Boston.com's Scott Brown slideshow reveals how much national candidates, in our infotainment culture, are now looking straight out of Hollywood.
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First Senator From the Tea Party?
Is Marco Rubio -- the potential "First Senator From the Tea Party" -- that fearful and paranoid, or was it just the NYT photo shoot?
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Dodd Scrapped
In this photo from last July, we see Senator Harkin gripping the arm of Senator Dodd while the two men study pictures of themselves back in the day. Dodd announced his retirement last night in a moved intended to save his seat for the Democrats in the Connecticut Senate...
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