BostonRed

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

Jerry Pippin the Redstate Liberal and i discuss the impact of Ted "Canadian" Cruz's  talkathon for defunding Obamacare and the debt ceiling on the 99%.

255 of 255 precincts reportingBOSTON MAYOR

 

                      BOSTON MAYOR

Candidate    Total votes    % of votes

Martin Walsh Winner    20,838    18.5%

John Connolly Winner    19,420    17.2%

Charlotte Golar Richie    15,536    13.8%

Daniel Conley    12,764    11.3%

Felix Arroyo    9,888    8.8%

John Barros    9,138    8.1%

Three polls released in three days, with strikingly similar results, suggest that we have a pretty good snapshot of where the Boston mayoral race stands.

John Connolly a right of centre  has a lead with his financial resources and strong field organization. Charlotte Golar Richie, a former city housing chief, who is an African American and the only woman in the race, has been rising in the polls.

A Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

 

Cook said any money contributed to the legal defense fund will go toward the town’s and individual council members’ attorney fees. He said Cobb is already threatening lawsuits, not to win, but “in order to bleed us dry.” A new website, www.leithnd.com, was started Tuesday for people to check in on Leith.

He said people can support the town in many ways — with letters or with visits — but anything is better than leaving so few people to stand alone, he said.

Anyone who wants to make a donation can send it to City of Leith Legal Defense Fund, Grant County State Bank, 202 N. Main St., Carson, N.D. 58529.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

The latest GOP internal dispute is over a continuing resolution to fund the government at sequester-spending levels. The current CR runs out at the end of the month, and about 40 to 50 House Republicans (out of 233) want to attach a rider that either delays or defunds the Affordable Care Act for a year and leaves everything else running.

These critics portrayed the Boehner plan as a sellout because of a campaign that captured the imagination of some conservatives this summer: Republicans must threaten to crash their Zeros into the aircraft carrier of ObamaCare. Their demand is that the House pair the "must pass" CR or the debt limit with defunding the health-care bill. Kamikaze missions rarely turn out well, least of all for the pilots.WSJ

Howard Cosell dubbed it “rule number one of the jockocracy”: sports and politics just don’t mix. But in Game Over, celebrated alt-sportswriter Dave Zirin proves once and for all that politics has breached the modern sports arena with a vengeance. From the NFL lockout and the role of soccer in the Arab Spring to the Penn State sexual abuse scandals and Tim Tebow’s on-field genuflections, this timely and hard-hitting new book from the “conscience of American sportswriting” (The Washington Post) reveals how our most important debates about class, race, religion, sex, and the raw quest for political power are played out both on and off the field.

President Obama address the nation econmy five years after the Depression.