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Author Archives: billmanzi
Romney Steps Closer
Mitt Romney picked up the endorsement of Chris Christie yesterday, continuing his slow, methodical march towards the Republican nomination. The Christie endorsement is obviously a prize, coming from a man that last week had many Republicans begging him to run … Continue reading
Massachusetts in the National Spotlight
The Massachusetts Senate race is drawing some real scrutiny from the national media, something that is likely to intensify in the coming months. Much commentary about clothing, or the lack thereof, and about campaign tactics and money. I guess we … Continue reading
Perry Launches
Rick Perry launched a pretty hard attack on the Mittster yesterday, hitting him on the flip-flop issue, as well as on health care and the individual mandate. Should lead to an interesting Republican debate tonight at Dartmouth. Perry is sinking … Continue reading
More Spending, But Who Pays?
Mitt Romney gave a foreign policy speech at The Citadel last week, advocating for a much more activist foreign policy. Aside from the buzzwords the Romney speech was woefully short of details. But maybe foreign policy can be discussed in … Continue reading
Steve Jobs
The death of Steve Jobs of Apple is a tremendous loss for the country. There has been extensive media coverage of Jobs since his death, with great emphasis on his brilliance. Jobs was indeed brilliant, but there was more to … Continue reading
No Runs, No Hits, No Errors
I watched the livestream of the Democratic debate at the University of Massachusetts Lowell last night and I was very impressed. I was happy to see a couple of Methuen students on the panel, including my friend Eunice Delice, who … Continue reading
Chris Christie Out
The Washington Post is reporting that Chris Christie will announce this morning that he is not running for President. A new poll put out this morning showed Christie in fourth place in the Republican field, but that is academic now. … Continue reading
Brown, Warren in Dead Heat
A new UMass Lowell Public Opinion Center survey shows Senator Scott Brown in a dead heat with Elizabeth Warren in the U.S. Senate race coming next year. The survey also looked at the Democratic primary, and finds Elizabeth Warren alone … Continue reading
The Empire Strikes Back
Mitt Romney has been all over Texas Governor Rick Perry since the Perry campaign rollout, hitting him on Social Security, while leaving it to the other candidates to take bites out of him on other issues. Now Romney is back … Continue reading
The European Conundrum
The Europeans continue to struggle to contain the burgeoning Greek debt crisis, hoping to contain it but struggling to keep the ship afloat while fixing a Greek debt problem that may be too large to fix without default. The subject … Continue reading
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