I'll bet you didn't even know today was the deadline to register to vote in the senate primaries next month. And I'll also bet December 8th isn't circled on your calendar, so you won't forget. According to our recent 7News/Suffolk University poll, only one of every ten voters knows when the election is.
I'm not a gambler, but once in a while, I do make a bet.
With the primary elections for Ted Kennedy's senate seat now less than a month away, tonight we can tell you where the candidates stand. And, how the governor's race is shaping up.
Think of Election Day as a tale of two politicians. One, the President, who was flying high, but is now falling back to earth. And the other, Boston Mayor Tom Menino, who continues to defy political gravity and stay aloft.
"The status quo must go!" Tom Menino declared during his first victory speech in November 1993.
Michael Flaherty says there's nothing personal about his race against Mayor Menino.
First of all, while it looked like a debate, it really wasn't, because the candidates never interacted with one another.
Officially, Martha Coakley has been running for the U.S. Senate for just six weeks... But that's long enough for me to see the beginning of a bad campaign.
This time, Barack Obama will bring back a gold...but it already seems tarnished.
Now this is politics - Boston style: It's creative, it's clever, it's sly, and maybe it will work.
"This is going to be a competitive race."
So Beacon Hill is going to do it. And I hope you're not surprised, or disappointed, or angry.
Attorney General Martha Coakley was the first to get in the race to replace Senator Edward Kennedy, and that's where state voters tell us she'll finish, too.
By any measure, Ted Kennedy was big, so big that his death makes everyone in Massachusetts smaller.
Ted Kennedy made even more memories today...and different people would choose different key moments.
Ted Kennedy may have had an imperfect personal life, but--politically--he was near perfect.
Maybe this comes from watching a Catholic service: I have a confession.
By now you certainly know that Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a member of one of America's most famous families, and the founder of the Special Olympics. But there are two things you may not know about her life and her legacy.