Steve Daley

At the close of ''The Last Hurrah,'' Edwin O`Connor`s splendid novel of Boston political life, Mayor Frank Skeffington summons a few old friends and cronies to his deathbed for a...

When the votes were tallied after the last presidential campaign, all that mattered was that George Bush had waged a masterful effort and that his Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis, had...

Consider Sen. Pete Wilson, term-limitation buff. The Republican nominee for governor of California announced in a recent TV debate that he subscribed to the increasingly popular notion of tossing incumbents...

If you travel around the campaign trail at summer`s end, you keep hearing people talk about ''the haters.'' In Louisiana and Massachusetts, in North Carolina and Texas, candidates and their...

For all the late-night palavering between the White House and the congressional leadership, the politics of any budget deficit agreement will continue to play out as the election nears. On...

On Adams Corner, a working-class neighborhood in the Dorchester section of Boston, voters last week were in the mood for a hanging. That`s not to say they weren`t in a...

Voters get no respect. In recent years, they`ve taken their lumps from political scientists who`ve chided them for turning out in low numbers. Social critics have characterized them as pushovers...

On Capitol Hill, war fever is giving way to dizziness and the bends. Having spent a month heaping hosannas on President Bush for his militant response to Iraq`s attack on...

The census projections weren`t any secret. Our neighbors, old and young, were leaving the farm and heartland, decamping the gritty urban centers and looking for whatever is left of the...

Whenever Middle East experts are summoned to the court of ABC News savant Ted Koppel or gathered up on the nation`s op-ed pages, they strive to shine a light on...