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John Gee

jgee@massincpolling.com
Posted inPolitics

Massachusetts Democrats want delegation to fight Trump. The rest of the state? Not so much.

by John Gee and Richard Parr April 3, 2025April 3, 2025

Given that Massachusetts is one of the deepest blue states, it makes sense that it would be firmly in the vanguard of the resistance to Trump. The challenge for the state’s all-Democratic congressional delegation is that the overall Massachusetts electorate is not exactly mounting the barricades.

Posted inBook Review

Questioning competitiveness

by John Gee June 19, 2024June 19, 2024

Through 200 years of manufacturing in the South Coast communities of Fall River and New Bedford, Shaun Nichols outlines cycles of growth and decline in multiple industries, raising compelling and uncomfortable questions about regional economic development.

Posted inOpinion

No middle ground on campus McCarthyism

by John Gee January 9, 2024January 9, 2024

Harvard president Claudine Gay was sent packing because of real misconduct, but the right-wing activists who drove her out have a much bigger goal — to undermine US higher education.

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