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Internet Media Strategy Tips for Political Candidates

September 18, 2010 in Uncategorized by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

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What all Political Campaigns Should Know

The internet, search engines and FaceBook are increasingly important tools for candidates to get their message out. It is fast, inexpensive, and allows you to target messages to very narrow voter audiences.

An internet strategy is not going to win you the election. There is no substitute for calling voters, knocking on doors, and having a robust “get out the vote” effort. But it is an indispensable tool to define the campaign issues and to help define you as a candidate.

We are going to go in detail about what you need to do, with example from some of this year’s best run internet political campaigns. This is the kind of advice the really big campaigns get, and we’re going to even the playing field a little.

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Massachusetts Election 2010 is the State’s Fastest Growing Political Blog

September 15, 2010 in Uncategorized by Rafael Baptista | View Comments

I want to share with you some information about the great progress we’ve been making in building this platform for a public conversation about our political future. I promise I won’t be writing many braggy articles about our growth.

 

Traffic Is Through the Roof

Traffic has been growing slowly and steadily over the past few months. But it really took off once we approached the primary. I know that politics web sites get a temporary jump in traffic around primary day. But we’ve taken a huge jump that is more than just primary traffic – over 5x growth in the past few days.

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Dan Bernstein & Dan Payne: What Mass Political Commentators are Watching for in Mass. Primaries

September 14, 2010 in Uncategorized by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Dan Bernstein has an excellent overview of the races to watch in today’s primary. As usual he is well informed and his list of interesting races is nearly complete. Here are some of the races he’s watching:

–Who’s afraid of a primary? Massachusetts Democratic incumbents can typically relax, because fellow Democrats don’t challenge their own, and the state’s GOP is hapless. That sense will likely be reinforced if this year’s intraparty bids fail badly — so opponents of complacency will be interested to see if folks like Mac D’Alessandro (running against Cong. Steve Lynch), Charles Rudnick (against st. sen. Cynthia Creem), Hassan Williams (against st. sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz), Chris Walsh (against st. rep. Pam Richardson), Anthony Guardia (against st. rep. Mark Falzone), and Matthew Albanese (against st. rep. Christine Canavan) can at least come close enough to keep Dems on their toes in the future.

–Other mighty clashes. For pure lovers of old-fashioned Boston-area political dogfighting, there’s no better race than the state senate rematch between Sal DiDomenico and Tim Flaherty. Eileen Donoghue and Christian Doherty are scorching the earth in the state senate race to replace the legendary Pangy. Both sides of the state senate race for O’Leary’s seat have interesting character contrasts. There are an unusual number of good races for Governors Council, which is to say there are any. And, among the many interesting state rep races, the scrum for Robert Spillane’s Worcester seat stands out as the one most likely to involve people attacking each other with signs before the polls close. And what more can you want?

He misses the contest between Mike Walsh and Mike Rush which is definitely worth watching as well.

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Interview with Geoff Diehl Candidate for 7th Plymouth Representative District

September 5, 2010 in McCarthy Diehl, Uncategorized by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

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Here is an interview with Geoff Diehl, candidate for 7th Plymouth Representative by “DaTechGuy” (http://datechguy.wordpress.com)

 

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Democratic Primary Debate for the 9th Bristol State Representative

September 5, 2010 in Medeiros Tavares Michaud, Uncategorized by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

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Ray Medeiros, candidate for 9th Bristol Representative has posted audio of a debate between Ray Medeiros, Bob Tavares and Chris Markey. This district is mostly in the greater New Bedford area.

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Mike Lake Calls for Sheriff Guy Glodis to Resign Over his Refusal to Pay Taxes

September 3, 2010 in Guy Glodis, Mary Connaughton, Mike Lake, Patronage Jobs, State Auditor, Uncategorized by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

Suzanne Bump Issues a Statement Condemning Glodis’ Failure to Pay Taxes

Plus a list of Guy Glodis’ “top 10″ other Ethics Problems

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The Globe published an article today about political campaign committees who have failed to pay taxes on earnings from the investments made with campaign money. Most of the candidates (Tim Cahill, Tim Murray, and Martha Coakley), have acknowledged the oversight and said they will pay their taxes immediately.

Guy Glodis’ campaign is also named, but he is taking a very strange position – he claims that it wasn’t an oversight – and he won’t pay.

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The Tea Party: Radical Extremists or Educators?

August 29, 2010 in Uncategorized by Paul Roy Jr | View Comments

With the November elections not far away, I want to take a look at the Tea Party Movement and and share my thoughts on what I see the movement as.

The first question one has to ask is what is the Tea Party movement. It certainly has been described as many things, a third political party, a racist organization, a bunch of right-wingers bent on ousting the current president, a movement to overthrow the Government by violent means. While every group has their fringe elements, this is not how I see the Tea Party movement, certainly not at the local level here in Massachusetts. This is based on my having attended various Tea Party group meetings and events. I have never seen any evidence of racism, violence, talk of impeachment or any of the things the Tea Party movement is accused of. Being a sceptic,  I have looked for this evidence and have found none.

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Video: Keating Slams O’Leary for “Triple Dipping” on NECN Debate

August 27, 2010 in 10th - Perry Malone Keating, Uncategorized by Massachusetts Election 2010 | View Comments

The Boston Herald reported yesterday that State Senator and 10th Congressional candidate Robert O’Leary is collecting pay for 3 simultaneous state jobs:

  • $76,030 in Senate pay;
  • $30,768 for teaching at Massachusetts Maritime Academy;
  • $2,922 for teaching part-time at Cape Cod Community College.

His primary opponent Bill Keating wasted no time in criticizing O’Leary in a taped debate on NECN.

 

 

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Bob Monty on Nassour’s MassGOPolicy: FAIL!

August 25, 2010 in Charlie Baker, Governor, Mariano Lowell, Uncategorized by Bob Montgomery Thomas | View Comments

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Massachusetts’ voters are purportedly all fired up and eager to throw out all the incumbents this November – but not the MassGOP. Its concentration is on the top-tier offices of governor, light governor, a smattering of other constitutional state offices and a couple of congressional seats – just not the state Legislature.

The absurdity that gubernatorial candidate and health care multi-millionaire Charlie Baker and his new BFF and former New York political operative and now MassGOP leader, Jennifer Nassour, is proposing, is to get the top ticket jobs and worry about the state’s House and Senate seats two years from now – when he will be just another lame duck (if he wins). He’ll never be able to sustain a veto (if he wins) – just like his Democrat predecessor, DeFault Patrick (if he loses); and all those before him. All of our recent governors have been woeful pawns to the whims of the Legislature, so why is no one aiming to control it instead of the Corner Office? Must be the drapes – yeah… that’s it – they like the drapes.

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Bob Monty: The MassGOP’s Meadow Muffin Minefield

August 15, 2010 in Uncategorized by Bob Montgomery Thomas | View Comments

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things – bread and circuses! — Juvenal

Jennifer Nassour

In a published 2009 interview titled “The Thin Red Line” in the GLBT news-paper Bay Windows, MassGOP Chair Jennifer Nassour said: “To me social issues are personal issues. Those are personal views, and we are not legislating here – at least I am not legislating anyone’s personal views. I have no personal agenda I’m trying to push through other than electing Republicans.” (No, I, Bob Monty, did not make up that quote.)

She went on to say that her top priority was to reinvigorate the GOP’s grass roots activists; that under her stewardship, there would be no statements from GOP headquarters on social conservative causes such as opposition to same-sex marriage or abortion. At the same time, there seemed to be no plans for the MassGOP to take more progressive positions on social issues under her leadership. Like with presents under a “Holiday” tree, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what’s in the pretty, wrapped boxes.

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