Minority Turnout Matters: A Reply to Where the Voters Are in Boston
Recently in CommonWealth Magazine Larry DiCara and James D. Sutherland wrote an interesting piece Where the voters are in Boston that argues that the real change in Boston voting is not toward the...
View ArticleWill Issues Matter in the Boston Mayor’s Race?
The Boston mayoral campaign is in full swing. Money is being raised, yard signs driven into the ground, door-to-door, TV ads, phone calls, mailers . . . even issues. So how much do issues matter in a...
View ArticleOpposing the East Boston Casino: Conley Hedges His Bet, Walczak Is All In
The Boston Globe reports today that Suffolk County DA and mayoral candidate Dan Conley favors a city-wide referendum on a proposed casino to be located at Suffolk Downs at East Boston. Bill Walczak is...
View ArticleBoston Mayor’s Race: Issues Won’t Matter, But What Will?
My UMass Boston colleague Dean Ira Jackson of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies interviewed me Wednesday to help introduce a series of interviews he has done with the Boston...
View ArticleThe Winning Play for Boston Mayor Race: Political Science
Recently I gave up on issues mattering much in the Boston mayor’s race but promised that if issues don’t matter and the largest fund raising totals aren’t the key determinant, I would discuss a factor...
View ArticleTom Keane’s Crusade for Corporate Campaign Cash
I’m just back from Maine where midcoast saw a state senate election in late August. I couldn’t escape this shocking story of money in politics as reported by Christopher Cousins of the Bangor Daily...
View ArticleProfessor U chats with Sharman Sacchetti
The race for Mayor of Boston will be picking up steam over the next couple of weeks. Professor Ubertacciosat down with Fox’s Sharman Sacchetti to discuss.
View ArticleAmerica’s Most Corrupt Politician and the Mayoral Election of 1925
Read on for my report on the Boston mayoral campaign – the election of 1925 that is. In actuality I am not reporting but borrowing from the work of my best friend the author Pat Halley. He is near...
View ArticleMarty Walsh and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Unions
One interesting narrative of the Boston mayoral race featuring Marty Walsh and John Connolly has been the controversy over Walsh’s labor support. As reported in the Boston Globe, Connolly sought to...
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