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October 31, 2006

Yet another poll showing Patrick way, way ahead
By Adam Reilly
Am I the only one who kind of stopped paying attention last week's flurry of polls, all of which showed Deval Patrick with a big fat lead over Kerry Healey?

Thankfully, my Phoenix colleague David Bernstein hasn't checked out yet. Which is why I can tell you that a brand-new Zogby/Wall Street Journal poll shows Patrick with--you guessed it!--a 25-percentage-point margin.

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October 27, 2006

November Surprise: Saddam's trial to end Nov. 5
By Adam Reilly
Fishy, fishy, fishy. So that's what Rove was talking about!

Here's a justifiably skeptical reaction from Media Matters.

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October 26, 2006

48 hours of RKO
By Adam Reilly
New in this week's Phoenix: I chronicle two straight days of WRKO chatter, including a caller's baseless assertion (not rejected by John DePetro) that Deval Patrick thinks rape is just rough sex.

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October 24, 2006

Rasmussen: Patrick up by 24
By Adam Reilly
More good news for Patrick partisans: according to Pollster.com, a new Rasmussen poll shows Healey trailing Patrick by a healthy 24 percentage points.

Coupled with the new Suffolk poll all the kids are talking about, this should officially squash all talk of Kerry Healey closing the gap.

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October 24, 2006

WSJ on the Mass. gov's race
By Adam Reilly
If you know anybody who hasn't followed Patrick versus Healey and needs to get up to speed, this Wall Street Journal article is a great start. (Gracias to the ever-vigilant men and women of Blue Mass. Group.)

Here's the bad part for Healey: "Mr. Patrick, a political newcomer, appears to have the race well in hand...." And for Mitt Romney, whose presidential ambitions prompted the piece: "For Mr.

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October 23, 2006

"Inmates" for Deval: caught on tape!
By Adam Reilly
"Inmate" 1: Hey fag.

"Inmate" 2: Shut up, you pussy!

[Sounds of scuffling]

"Inmate" 1 [winded]: Dude, Healey's still getting her ass kicked by the black guy. Let's put on our fake prisoner outfits and make a ruckus in front of his house--and his campaign manager's!

"Inmate" 2: I don't know, man. I mean, we're not going to get Patrick or his campaign manager to vote for Healey.

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October 19, 2006

Pithy debate wrapup
By Adam Reilly
Ross wins. She's the new Eugene Debs.

Healey should have followed Alison King's lead and panned Mitt Romney's anti-MA stumping. Bad move, Kerry! Other than that, she was good on substance (if you like her shtick, which I don't) but bad on aesthetics.

Patrick's reputation as a vague talker got worse tonight. His roughest debate, I'd say.

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October 19, 2006

Pithy midpoint debate analysis
By Adam Reilly
Grace Ross is winning.

Deval Patrick is off his game.

Kerry Healey's getting stronger as the evening progresses, but looked like she was going to cry when the crowd booed her.

Mihos seems to have just rolled out of bed and had a couple drinks, but he's doing almost as well as Ross.

David Gergen's an awkward guy.

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October 19, 2006

Menino taps new head flack
By Adam Reilly
Seems it's Dot Joyce, a segment producer for the FOX-25 Morning Show. She replaces ex-Phoenician Seth Gitell, who left in June to return to journalism.

Best of luck, Dot--you've got a tough job.

Here's the official press release:

Mayor Menino Appoints Dot Joyce as Press Secretary

Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced his appointment of Dot Joyce, segment producer for the FOX Morning Show, as his press secretary.

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October 19, 2006

WSJ: Patrick leads by wide margin
By Adam Reilly
This Zogby Interactive poll, which was conducted between October 10 and 16, gives Patrick a 22.4 percentage-point lead over Kerry Healey. It's the second-biggest margin of the 19 gubernatorial races Zogby polled. Christy Mihos gets 6.4 percent; margin of error is 3.6 percentage points.

Looks like the Healey camp needs to unveil this new ad asap.

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October 19, 2006

Globe reveals Romney's Mormon strategy
By Adam Reilly
Today's excllent Globe story on Mitt Romney's efforts to build a national LDS network is a must-read that could neutralize, in one fell swoop, Mitt's attempts to deal with his Mormonism by running as a hard-core social conservative.

I told you so.

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October 18, 2006

Write your own Kerry Healey ad!
By Adam Reilly
100 words or less. Best entry (as judged by me and my Phoenix colleagues) gets a $10 certificate for El Pelon Taqueria!!! (Sorry, Kerry, your latest spot isn't eligible).

Example:

(Angriest possible image of Deval Patrick on screen)

VOICEOVER: For centuries, black men were feared as violent sexual predators.

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October 18, 2006

Does Romney want Healey to lose?
By Adam Reilly
It sure looks that way. As the Herald's Margery Eagan noted yesterday, Mitt's buffoonery at the Boston edition of Liberty Sunday probably won't help Healey with undecided voters who happen to be social moderates. And yesterday, during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Romney accepted Blitzer's contention that the Mass.

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October 17, 2006

Special media edition: Lowell leaves Lydon
By Adam Reilly
A little something different here, folks, since Media Log is on ice and one of the biggest names in Boston journalism is making news. Ordinary Phoenix readers have to wait 'til Thursday for this content; you get it today!

When Christopher Lydon--ex-New York Times reporter, former Boston mayoral candidate, self-styled “venture broadcaster,” and host of the radio program Open Source--announced earlier this week that his show and the University of Massachusetts Lowell were parting ways, he did so in typically Lydonian fashion.

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October 16, 2006

Healey's non-denial
By Adam Reilly
There was a fascinating phrase buried on page B7 of the Globe yesterday. At a campaign stop in Beverly, Kerry Healey had this to say about Deval Patrick's clear implication that her campaign was behind the Bernard Sigh story:

"We had absolutely nothing to do with the Herald's description of this information." [emphasis added]

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