Entries in MassPoliticsProfs by Maurice Cunningham

Money had a good day and the citizens a bad day at the Iowa caucuses. In other words, business as usual in our campaign farce-ocracy.

The influential political science text The Party Decides argues that party activists decide who the presidential nominee will be. But the Republican Party hates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. What if one of them wins?

Pollsters love me because I'll actually answer their questions. Pollsters hate me because my answers aren't very good.

In assessing Governor Charlie Baker's State of the Commonwealth Address we should not  look just at what he said, but how he chose to say it and what he left out.

Massachusetts elected Governor Wonk and got Governor Empathy thrown in.

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders et al. are outsiders who've mastered an old insider trick: bamboozling inattentive voters.

The Republican debate participants all projected seriousness last night, but understanding them is pure classic comedy.

Carpet bombing, nuking, murdering terrorists' family members, the indiscriminate killing of innocent children. Republicans Ted Cruz and Donald Trump aren't tough. They're immoral.

As poll proliferation goes national Harvard's Professor Jill Lepore questions polling's value to our democracy.

There was a lot of pretend, deceit, manipulation, and lying in politics in 2015, but there can be only one winner of the coveted Jocelyn Hutt Award for Fraud in Politics.