Notes from first night at DNC

I have covered Republican and Democratic national conventions from New York to Kansas City, but I’ve never seen a first night as electric as that which I viewed on television last evening.  I did not take notes, so the following are the impressions that “have legs.”   Especially moving were the personal accounts of men …

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CO2 not DNA shapes outcome of Markey/ Kennedy race

The most discordant note in Joe Kennedy's elegiac concession speech on Tuesday night was his observation that, even knowing the outcome, if he had to do it all over again, he would do it "in a heartbeat." Giving voice to the frustrations of tens of thousands of working-class voters living in Massachusetts gateway cities is …

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