Michael Dukakis

Just A Little Bit to the Right

In writing about the House Republican leadership contest for the main site, I was reminded of the 1998 gubernatorial primary between Paul Cellucci and Joe Malone in Massachusetts. The two Republican statewide elected officials...

The election, Democrats and the GOP

The deeper one digs into the returns from this last election, the more portentous the results seem. I know the dangers of deciding too soon that any one election is a turning point. I recall vividly how devastated Republicans...

Dada Map, White Vote, High Court, GA Run-Off...

Most of us have had our fill of red state/blue state electoral vote maps during the last couple of weeks. But there is just one more that merits a gander, Princeton Election Consortium's size-distorted EV map of the U.S. It...

Obama, McCain meet post-election

Just 13 days after the election and a month after their last face-to-face debate, President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain sat down to talk Monday at Obama's Transition headquarters in Chicago.

Presidents-Elect Meeting Their Opponents -- Examples From History

A strong tradition exists of winners of presidential contests meeting with their opponents after their victory. FOXNews.com Sunday, November 16, 2008 During a meeting with President Bill Clinton in late December 2000,...

Hope and change

The former, yes; the latter, well don't hold your breath, advises Azmi Bishara The African American strategy for pressing their demands for equality is necessarily assimilationist. When Obama nominated himself as a presidential...

Deception in 2008 was average

WORCESTER - Great data will not go far without a way to communicate it, whether you're a presidential candidate, researcher or policymaker, Kathleen Hall Jamieson told a luncheon crowd at Clark University yesterday.

Mourning in America

It’s been a while now since the election took place, but it’s still not easy for me to come to grips with it. Strangely enough, I slept okay the night I learned that Barack Obama had defeated John McCain. It was only when I...

Clout: No shortage of U.S. attorney hopefuls

By Daily News Staff Philadelphia Daily News WHILE THOUSANDS of resumés make their way to Barack Obama's transition team, the most coveted prize around Philadelphia is the U.S. attorney's job. "Until January, George Bush is...

Flashbacks: Poking fun at the Globe’s tone deaf corrections, on the campaign trail with Mel King,...

TONE DEAF5 years agoNovember 14, 2003 | Chris Wright thought it strange that the Globe delivered trivial corrections in the same tone as it did significant ones.“There have been many wonderful corrections in the Globe over the...

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