Author: MassCommons

There are no final victories in politics. If Barack Obama wins a second term in today’s voting, tomorrow the curtain will rise on a three act, five month drama that could reveal a lot about the direction of American...

We all have our ways of dealing with impending deadlines.  Judging by his latest column, it appears William Galston is the kind of Democrat who deals with the prospect of a Democratic president winning re-election by laying...

I tend not to make predictions about elections.  There are a bunch of reasons why that’s true, but the most important may be simply that it doesn’t make any difference what I think is going to happen.  What...

Now this is a terrific political ad: youtube Some context:  Richard Tisei spent 26 years as a Republican in the Massachusetts state legislature before running for (and losing) lieutenant governor in 2010.  He’s...

With less than a week before Election Day, it’s unclear whether the “Obama Era” will be anything more than a short interlude between the Bush and Romney Eras.  I suspect that if Pres. Obama is re-elected...