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For the first time since Mike Dukakis left office 16 years ago, Massachusetts has a Democrat for a governor. And he isn’t a classic Boston-style pol, either. He’s Deval Patrick, our first black governor.

As the map shows, Patrick’s victory was by a wide margin, but not in our town. It’s hard to read, but Patrick had 46% to Republican Kerry Healey’s 45%.

I expected Healey to win, actually, because Hopkinton is mostly a GOP town. It’s home to EMC² Corp. co-founder Richard Egan, who occasionally hosts Dick Cheney at his home.

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Here’s some of last night’s Colbert Report. Tonight is the big 1-hour election show, combined with Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show.

The day before the mid-term elections, The Army Times is publishing this editorial, calling for the removal of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. It should be noted that although the paper is sold to military personnel, it is a private publication.

A recommendation of my own is that we return to calling the Defense Department the War Department. Invading Iraq had nothing to do with defending America.

My Google toolbar includes this “RS” link for Rolling Stone magazine. A recent item that appeared there is an interview with both Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, conducted by New York Times columnist Maureen Down. Click here to read.