Wednesday, January 03, 2007

I have an article in the new issue of the Phoenix, asking if New England is on the road to political irrelevance.

However, before you read it, I want to correct something. At the bottom of the third section of the article, I write about "independent expenditures" spent on congressional races. The figures I used came from Congressional Quarterly's PoliticalMoneyLine.

I have since realized that data figures at the Federal Election Commission's site are much higher -- I would guess that PML's database is not up-to-date through the election, and does not include substantial late spending in close races. The FEC figures are available here.

With that said, click over to the story. Left Out: Its population is stagnating and its vote is predictable. I the years to come, will the rest of the country care about New England?

Also, I take a little whack at the new police commissioner here: Commissioner Davis is already playing the blame game.

1/3/2007 5:02:51 PM by David S. Bernstein | Comments [0] |