Posts from — November 2009

The four candidates will return to campaigning with a fury this week, including debates on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Here’s how to tune in: [Read more →]

The subject of tonight's discussion is: Why are there no women on this panel?

Since Since the Globe’s endorsement over the weekend, I’ve received a lot of e-mailed questions about who exactly makes such decisions.  According to the Globe’s website, [Read more →]

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Here’s a video you can send to your friends when you remind them that the primary is on Tuesday, December 8.  The video was made by Coakley supporters Julia and Emma.

A segment from last night’s WGBH debate:

Here’s a link to the WGBH video.  The excerpted minute begins at 32:20.

With just over two weeks until the December 8 primary, Coakley and her volunteers are wearing out the shoe leather.  Today, the candidate visited voters and collected local endorsements in Northampton and Greenfield, and tomorrow she’ll do the same in her hometown of North Adams, as well as Pittsfield and  Springfield.  Meanwhile the weekend, about 200 volunteers in 12 cities and towns state-wide knocked on 4,500 doors.  If you’d like to volunteer to help canvass or make phone calls, click here.

A new Boston Globe/UNH pollshows that Martha Coakley is the candidate the likely voters see as the

• most qualified
• best able to understand the problems of people like them
• most desirable to have a beer with and
• most likely to win.

Her favorables ratings, at 71%, “dwarf” those of her competition.

As the “undecideds” shrink, Coakley is holding strong at 43%.   Capuano, at 22%, now is out-polling Pagliuca, who has dropped to 15%.  Khazei trails at 6%.

AG Coakley told NECN’s This Week in Business that she would vote to pass the health care bill currently before the Senate, calling it 

a very strong bill.  I think it has all of the qualities we want in it — a strong public option, it covers pre-existing conditions — and frankly, it doesn’t have some of the things that you don’t want in this bill.

On creating jobs through innovation, Coakley said [Read more →]

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