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Night of the Living Newt

Mitt Romney has money, organization, and great hair — but Newt Gingrich has the nastiness Republicans have come to expect from top conservatives
Newt Gingrich held court earlier this week at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics (NHIOP) at Saint Anselm College, as a throng of local and national media swarmed to watch him participate in an event of his own creation.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 15, 2011

Brighton progressive Tim Schofield takes his third swing at public office

Last chance in Brighton
Tim Schofield's two previous campaigns for public office seemed to prove that being the progressive darling of Brighton is not a winning political niche.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 30, 2011

The Right To Occupy

Boston's 99-percenters head to court next week, perhaps with the future of the movement at stake
Occupy Boston and the City of Boston face each other in state superior court next week, for a hearing on the city's right to remove the protesters' encampment on Dewey Square .

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 22, 2011

It's Mitt & Scott's Party Now

Scott Brown and Mitt Romney, preparing for the 2012 microscope, are installing a faithful friend at the State GOP
A longstanding rift between the high and low tiers of the Massachusetts Republican Party has widened in the past few years — and it's about to grow into a chasm over two views of the 2012 elections.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 16, 2011

City Elections

New Boston's big day
In practical terms, Tuesday's city elections changed very little in Boston.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 09, 2011

The Ex-Mitt Club

Most of Romney's big early donors from his first presidential campaign have deserted him in his second
In most ways, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign has improved upon the 2008 version.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 02, 2011

Saner Than the GOP: The Vermin Supreme-Aleister Crowley Presidential Debate

Election 2012: Only one candidate walks out alive
Everything you need to know about what may be the most important political event of the year.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 27, 2011

Shifting lines

Boston seems to be taking the state legislative redistricting proposal well — but that doesn’t mean everybody’s happy
Last week, the state legislature revealed the new redistricting proposal for Massachusetts's state-legislative districts.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 26, 2011

Saner than the GOP: The Salem Presidential Debate

Election 2012
In what may very well be the most important political event of the year, two presidential candidates are scheduled to debate this Friday evening in Salem, Massachusetts.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 03, 2011

Dorchester hosts the city's most intensely fought council campaign

Dirty pool
Prior to the September preliminary, I described the race to fill the only open seat on the Boston City Council — replacing Maureen Feeney of Dorchester, who has chosen not to seek another term — as something like a school election.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 19, 2011

Narrowing the Field

Elizabeth Warren hasn’t wrapped up the nomination for Senate; she's only determined who can beat her if she falters.
It may seem like the Democratic nomination of a challenger to US Senator Scott Brown has been wrapped up. That's not true — there are 11 months left before the primary, and a lot can still happen.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 12, 2011

A Statesman Too Late?

John Kerry heads to work on the debt ‘super committee’ with his usual earnestness and high hopes — despite the circus that surrounds him
The congressional debt "super committee" has begun its work, and already there are signs that its task is hopeless.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | September 21, 2011

The fight for Dorchester's open city council seat is more like a school election than a modern political one

Old school
The Dorchester district that Maureen Feeney has represented since 1993 is now perhaps the most diverse in the city — and of all the council districts, its percentages of white, black, Asian, and Hispanic residents most closely reflects Boston as a whole.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | September 14, 2011

A new labor day

Bay State unions make Steve Tolman their new public face. Will Boston lose his senate seat?
The past couple of years have not been great ones for the labor movement in Massachusetts — even aside from the general economic strife that has seen workers struggle for jobs.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | September 07, 2011

Deval's Green Blues

Long supported by the state's environmental organizations, Governor Patrick has started a war with them over biomass
The document in question contains the final regulations for the state's biomass subsidies, and according to environmentalists, the Patrick administration is planning to reverse its pre-election position — and fly in the face of good science — for the benefit of a handful of developers who stand to make money off of burning trees for energy.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 31, 2011

Boston's last congressman?

Musical chairs dept.
At the moment, neither the Senate president nor the Speaker of the House lives in the city. And in two years, the unthinkable could become reality: Boston might not have a single congressman residing in its borders.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 31, 2011

Mitt's best week ever

Romney's presidential quest is looking better than ever - no thanks to his own campaign
The quadrennial farce known as the Ames Straw Poll has once again made its mark on the race for the Republican presidential nomination — by rewarding the candidate smart enough to avoid it.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 17, 2011

Ayanna Pressley is a rising political superstar — whose career might be over by year's end

Elvis is Queen
Even as she faces the very real possibility of defeat this November, Pressley is receiving support and gushing praise from most of Boston's political figures.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 12, 2011

Whatever happened to Danville's giant mystery monkey?

Unfinished (monkey) business
The giant monkey of Danville was my symbol, back then, of the fin-de-siècle nadir in media fluffery, thankfully obsolesced in one grim morning.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 04, 2011

Warren for Senate?

Washington bigwigs love the idea, but Massachusetts insiders aren’t convinced — at least not yet
As soon as President Barack Obama began waffling about naming Elizabeth Warren director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Democratic rumor mill began churning about Warren as a potential 2012 challenger to Republican US Senator Scott Brown.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 29, 2011

Showtime for New Boston

With the Urban League conference coming next week, Boston's movers and shakers are scrambling to project a progressive racial image
After years of trying to convince groups with large minority membership that the Hub is now a welcoming, friendly destination for African-Americans, this is the first big organization to test the theory.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 27, 2011

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