Elections Blog

Love him or hate him Senator Russ Feingold (put your cursor over the star to gets lots of great info on the senator) has been absolutely consistent in his position on the Iraq War. From the very beginning he stood up against this war and continued to stand against the misguided foray. He [...]

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I am not sure how Massachusetts functioned without him in a crisis.  Willard is gaining praise for yet again taking control and giving Massachusetts a flash of that CEO governor we elected in 2002.  Whew, I feel better, don’t you?  I am willing to except the fact that he leaves Kerry Healey in charge nearly [...]

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Stephen Moore, a member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, sat down recently with our fearless leader Gov. Mitt Romney to talk about the Big Dig. What it a treat it was to read what Mitty thinks of the Big Dig, the interview yielded several jewels.
When I sat down for lunch with Gov. [...]

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Juicy gossip alert!  There is some rumbling that Sen. Harry Reid, our esteemed Minority Leader, has indicated that he is looking to step down from the position sometime early in 2009 and that he would give his unparalelled support to Sen. Hillary Clinton to pursue the post (of what is hopefully then MAJORITY Leader).  This [...]

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There has been an effort by some to overhaul the Democratic presidential primary schedule.  The biggest argument usually is that Iowa and New Hampshire have an inordinate amout of influence on the Democratic nominee in relation to their demographic makeup.  Basically these are pretty white states with pretty middle class people having a huge influence [...]

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Recently over at BMG there was a post by Lspinti singing the praises about Al Gore.  Perhaps the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows that most Americans view Gore quite unfavorably (42% to 30%).  As I mentioned on Sunday, I was impressed with Gore and really love his message on global warming.  However, support for [...]

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For some reason Kerry’s latest statement that his Iraq war vote was a mistake seems to be making the news. I am not sure why though, I thought Kerry made this statement a while ago. Nonetheless Wayne Woodlief has a great analysis on the pit falls of Kerry’s “get the troops out right [...]

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Interesting story on the Globe’s Political Intelligence.  It seems that John Kerry crashed a fundraising event of Hillary Clinton’s that took place this past Sunday at the Westin Copley.  Perhaps Kerry was a little concerned about the fundraising juggernaut known as Hillary Clinton being on his turf.  Maybe he just wanted to make a little [...]

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Russ Feingold was up in New Hampshire and Maine this weekend speaking to the Dem Party conventions in each state (too bad he didn’t make it here). Mark Warner was also there. Salon has a great write up about the speeches of both. One especially interesting note was that the author of [...]

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Romney officially announced that he is giving up on the Republican Party here in Massachusetts in order to turn his sights to national Republicans.  Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman, acknowledged that governor’s sights are no longer at home; he attributes the reason for the lost interest on Romney’s new role as chairman of the Republican [...]

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Russ Feingold has a great solution to the President’s all too frequent flouting of the law: censure him. Yesterday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Sen. Feingold announced that he has created a resolution by which the Senate, and I presume the House, can censure President Bush for pretending he had authority which he [...]

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I am really excited to announce a new group for those interested in seeing real change in America; change that is steeped in progressive traditions but mixed with a great twist of common sense and practicality:
Massachusetts for Feingold!
I know we have a TON of work to do with the upcoming gubernatorial campaign but we wanted [...]

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Well the national blogger community is up in arms about Hackett’s exit from politics. MyDD has all sorts of posts lamenting the push from party insiders to get Hackett to step down. Matt Stoller has been saying that this is a loss for bloggers because it shows that while the efforts of bloggers [...]

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I just got an email from Russ’s Progressive Patriot’s Fun. I was very impressed because he is podcasting now! Between his posts on Kos and his podcasting Russ clearly shows he is not afraid to move into this century. I love this guy!
Download the podcast. (You don’t have to download, you [...]

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I am sure it is quite clear that I am big fan of Russ Feingold. Although he has not said he is running in 2008 I emphatically throw my support behind him now and hope that as others in the blogosphere start to cast their eyes toward the presidential contest we can do for [...]

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If you are looking for a defender of civil liberties and a candidate who will stand on his principles no matter what the pressure to do otherwise is, look for further than Senator Russ Feingold. I know I have said the same things about the good Senator before but that is because he just [...]

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