Author: MassCommons

As we near the end of John Kerry’s eight years in the Oval Office…what’s that?…really?…oh…. Sorry, that was the lede for an Alternate America post—the one in which the previously leaden,...

It’s not necessarily news when a prominent African-American minister endorses a Democratic candidate and criticizes the Republican incumbent by saying, “To date, the Brown campaign has failed to commit any...

Somewhere between Mitt Romney going there by comparing Pres. Obama to “his boys” and Romney’s third different bald-faced lie about his tax plan, Obama fell back from a debate strategy of being reactive to an...

There are times when Elizabeth Warren’s rookie status as a political candidate hurt her.  Last night’s debate was one of those times. Warren made no major mistakes.  (Naming the soon-to-be-retired Dick...

Ed Rogers is a political pro.  Started in Alabama Republican politics in the 1970s when that state was still a Democratic stronghold, worked on Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaigns and in the H. W. Bush White House,...