The Other McCain

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Doug Hoffman Needs Your Help

Mr. K at Jumping in Pools reminds us that the breakthrough Scott Brown made in Massachusetts was, to some extent, made possible by Doug Hoffman’s campaign last year in New York that fell painfully short of victory: [Democrat] Bill Owens would violate four campaign promises in his inaugural 24 hours of work, outraging citizens and […]

Union Rank-and-File in Massachusetts Deserted Democrats in Droves

The Wall Street Journal today notes that Republican Scott Brown got more union votes than Martha Coakley. That would be big news if I hadn’t already reported a week ago that SEIU members were supporting Brown and if I hadn’t reported on Election Day that an AFSCME local official was supporting Brown. The plural of […]

Ui2: Schweet Aggregation

Ui2 is an interesting Web news-blog aggregator site that is also — what a coincidence! — a new advertiser at The Other McCain. Here are a few headlines I picked up from the front page there yesterday afternoon: Politico: Dazed Dems rethink entire strategy  Red State: Tasting Defeat Hot Air: Pence considering run against Bayh […]

VIDEO: Massachusetts Democrat Who Voted for Scott Brown

Since voting for Harry Truman in 1948, she’s never voted Republican, but after Tuesday? She’s just another irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary tea bagger! Soon to be Keith Olbermann’s Worst Person in the World! (And don’t even think about commenting at Little Green Footballs, lady!)

Conor and Andy Want Some Pudding

“It is particularly amusing to see folks call the outcome stunning in one breath and aver in the next that they can explain why it happened mere hours after the fact, without any new data save the result. This is especially grating when it’s so obvious that the election turned on all the issues that […]

All Politics News Breakfast Is Local

FITCHBURG, Mass. — Two eggs over medium, corned beef hash, wheat toast, orange juice and coffee yesterday morning at the Fifth Street diner: The Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise has this: Vincent FratAntonio, 49, of Leominster, went to vote Tuesday despite recently having major surgery, and cast his vote for “(Scott) Brown, of course.” . . […]

Ace of Spades Came to Boston Unprepared for Last Night’s Celebration

Fortunately, one of his readers remembered to bring the Jello Sugar-Free Vanilla Pudding. This photo shows Ace on Blogger’s Row holding the Official AOSHQ Pudding that Norah O’Donnell was invited to lick from the Official AOSHQ Scrotum: Accept the pudding, Norah O’Donnell. You will accept the pudding. You must accept the pudding. Last night, Dan Collins was seated on Blogger’s […]

ELECTION DAY IN MASSACHUSETTS

FITCHBURG, Mass. This town is one of the “bellwethers” of the Commonwealth’s voting pattern, according to Suffolk University’s Political Research Center. It’s also been my base of operations for the past five days, since Da Tech Guy lives here. He’s just voted for Republican Scott Brown and filed a brief report about what he saw […]

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