The Horse Race
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A weekly podcast on Massachusetts politics, policy, and elections. Hosted by @skoczela.bsky.social and @jenndotsmith.bsky.social
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The Horse Race
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· Sep 11
Episode 364: #BOSMayor Mind the Enormous Gap
This week on The Horse Race, Steve and Jenn discuss the results of the Boston Mayoral preliminary election -- by all accounts a blowout for Michelle Wu setting up a tough road to November for Josh Kra
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The Horse Race
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· Aug 28
Episode 362: Are Mass. Dems Really Jumping Ship?
This week on The Horse Race Jenn and Steve talk discuss how automatic voter registration is making Democrats’ woes look worse than they are. And, of course, all the new Mass. flag submissions.
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The Horse Race
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· Aug 14
Episode 360: Could 40+ Questions on Your Ballot Help Legislative Productivity? (ft. Mike Deehan)
Last week was the deadline to file ballot questions for November 2026 and over 40 ballot questions made it through. These are questions that ultimately could become law covering a wide range of topics
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· Jul 31
Episode 358: A Potential Big Beautiful Budgetary Disaster
This week on The Horse Race, Steve sits down with Rich Parr, VP of The MassINC Polling Group to discuss new polling on the mayoral election. Then Steve is joined by Katie Lannan of GBH News to tell th
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The Horse Race
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· Jul 31
Episode 358: A Potential Big Beautiful Budgetary Disaster
This week on The Horse Race, Steve sits down with Rich Parr, VP of the Mass Inc Polling Group to discuss new polling on the mayoral election. Then Steve is joined by Katie Lennan, reporter for GBH new
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The Horse Race
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· Jul 17
Episode 357: A Nicotine Free Generation
This week on The Horse Race, Steve and Jenn are joined by CommonWealth Beacon reporter Bhaamati Borkhetaria to talk about the fight to regulate nicotine use in the Common Wealth. In recent years, vari
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The Horse Race
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· Jul 11
Episode 356: The Ghost of Budgets Passed
After years of delayed budgets, the Massachusetts state budget came ever so close to coming on time this year. This week on The Horse Race, Steve and Jenn are joined by Chris Lisinski of Statehouse Ne
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The Horse Race
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· Jun 26
Episode 355: Trump Attacks Iran. What do Polls Show? What do Massachusetts Politicians Think?
This week on The Horse Race, Jenn and Steve discuss the flurry of news from the Middle East this weekend. Then they discuss various polls which reveal how Americans are feeling about Trump's unannounc
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The Horse Race
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· Jun 19
Episode 354: An Ol' Fashioned Governor Giddy-up — MassINC Polling Group
This week on The Horse Race, Steve Koczela and Jenn Smith are joined by CommonWealth reporter Gin Dumcius. The race for Governor is beginning and candidates such as Maura Healey and Mike Keneally and ...
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The Horse Race
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· May 15
Episode 349: Home is Where the Polls Are — MassINC Polling Group
This week, it's a double housing policy polling special from the MassINC Polling Group. Jenn interviews Jesse Kanson-Benanav of Abundant Housing Massachusetts about a new poll MPG conducted for them, ...
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