Deval Patrick

Obama’s Top Ten U.S. Supreme Court PicksHere's the List folks:1.) Elena Kagan (49), Solicitor General of the United States. The likeliest candidate, and it was somewhat of a surprise she didn’t get picked last time. Pluses: would please much of Obama’s base, follows diversity politics of Sotomayor with first openly gay justice (so would Karlan and Sullivan). [Update: While Karlan and Sullivan are open about it, I have to correct my text here to say that Kagan is apparently still closeted...Read Full Story

The National Election Pool did not conduct an exit poll for the Massachusetts gubernatorial race this year. However, I led a team of students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst to sample voters at 18 precincts across the state today. You can find specifics on our Massachusetts Exit Poll survey, including preliminary results, here. One finding clearly jumps out from our preliminary results: Deval Patrick (D) appears to owe his victory today to women. As the chart below shows, men...Read Full Story

Gov. Deval Patrick, the proto–Barack Obama, is up for reelection in Massachusetts. Republicans hoping to defeat Obama would do well to study Patrick’s political fortunes — if only to see how poorly Massachusetts Republicans have done against one of the most unpopular governors in the country.Like Barack Obama, Candidate Patrick seemed perfect. A political neophyte. A black man, raised by a single mother, winning scholarships to elite schools. He gave baby boomers, heady with thoughts of a...Read Full Story

I hate even posting on this but the meme is still swirling out there that Obama somehow acted inappropriately by using some of Deval Patrick's words in a recent speech. I can't begin to describe how ludicrous this is so I'll let Deval Patrick himself do the talking:Patrick was the source of Obama's allegedly lifted words, and he laughed off the accusation of plagiarism, calling it "elaborate" and "extravagant." "I think it's a sad comment on the state of the race and the state of our politics...Read Full Story

Deval Patrick has had a long a close friendship with Democratic presidential nominee for years. This relationship may grow strnoger if Obama is successful in his bid for the White House, as Patrick's name is reportedly on the short list for the position of Attorney General in an Obama administration.The two men are close enough friends that Obama was dinged by Hillary Clinton's campaign for lifting some lines from Patrick's own stump speeches during primary season. Patrick quickly rose to...Read Full Story

Two days after the Clinton campaign first published videos on YouTube that sparked allegations of plagiarism on the part of Barack Obama, the press was still on the case. And in an appearance on ABC 5 Vote(s)Read Full Story

Patrick has left the state, again, but this time to start campaigning for Barry.Read Full Story

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