This year is supposed to be all about change - not change for its own sake, but because when people are hurting, out of a job or working harder just to make ends meet, they expect their government to make the same kind of sacrifices.
Priorities change - in our homes, on our streets, at work. But on Beacon Hill change has been glacial. The Legislature has been slow to grasp the level of discontent. But it’s the governor who is supposed to lead.
Critics will point to the Herald being the "conservative" paper in Boston, which is a lot like saying that Nagasaki got an easier bombing than Hiroshima. The Boston Herald is still liberal on a par with, say, the Washington Post or the LA Times - they just don't kowtow to the NYT like the Globe (since the NYT is, after all, the Globe's corporate master). The Globe has Jeff Jacoby; the Herald has Howie Carr; both are lone voices in the wild in the pages of Massachusetts newspapers.
For a major MA daily to endorse the neophyte Republican candidate over the established Democrat candidate is pretty amazing. The Globe is playing the race close to the vest, with no visible show of support for their presumed candidate Deval Patrick. Baker is still trailing Patrick at this point - although most polls show the race within the margin of error - so the Herald could be going out on a limb with this endorsement. Then again, they also did back the losing Healey-Hillman ticket in 2006, so they at least have a history of not supporting "Cadillac" Deval...
Now, if only we could do something about the 90% Democrat stranglehold on the MA legislature...
That is all.
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It doesn't surprise in the least that the Herald has endorsed Baker. It's the more "conservative" of the two Boston papers. It would surprise, shock, me if the Boston Glob endorsed him, but I'm not holding my breath.
With 13 days left, I think Baker still has a chance to win this, Tim Cahill or not.
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