Posted on 10/17/2018 6:58:15 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
I admit, I know nothing about Massachusetts politics, but how can this state be set to elect a Republican Governor by 40 points, and also send Pocahantas back to the Senate by a wide margin? What is the dynamic going on in that state?
Their “Republicans” like those in Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey, bear little resemblance to the real thing!
I’m told Charlie Baker is a lefty too in the “John Lindsey” wing of the GOP.
Mitt Romney is what passes as a Republican in Mass.
In Massachusetts, Romney is a Republican.
One Word:
MITTROMNEY..................
Remember Gov. Weld? Calling him a RINO would be a stretch. I’m afraid these Mass. Republicans are as Republican as Bloomberg (thankfully that fraud is back to being a Dimm).
Take a look at the last ‘Pubbie governor of MA - Romney.
Then it is pretty easy to understand.
No, I understand that a Republican in Massachusetts (at least one getting elected statewide) is not remotely going to look like one from Alabama... I understand that much... I just don’t grasp that if Pocahantas is what they want in a Senator, how they aren’t putting an equally whackadoo left winger in the Governorship?
I am hard pressed to believe, that your Governor is in the abolish Ice, open border crowd?
Baker may wear an R jersey, but he’s a Democrat.
Baker’s an acceptable Mass. Republican. Meaning a guy who’s socially liberal but maybe skeptical about raising taxes.
The problem with Mass, is that there’s too many elderly people like my parents who think they’re still voting for the Democratic Party of FDR or Truman or JFK.
My mother reflexively votes straight-ticket Dem and will never change. But she thinks “feminists” are silly and has no idea what “Neo-Marxism” or “Socialism” is. It’s just not on her radar at all. There’s a mental disconnect there.
It’s an excellent question. Mass is a thru and thru Dem state. I just can’t grab why a state that loyally Dem has had such a good track record of electing Republicans to the Governor’s office.
Yeah, yeah, we can make the argument that Romney, Hogan and Weld were all liberal Republicans. They were! But it doesn’t explain the ticket splitting that we’ve seen in that state.
They vote for a Republican (in name only) governor because it is well understood that the legislature will be Democrat.
Former NYC Mayor Lindsay, a not so conservative blast from the past.
Mitt Romney is like John Wayne in Massachusetts, every place else he is like Pee Wee Herman.
I understand the old school folks pulling straight ticket Dem.. but if folks were just voting straight ticket DEM, the governor would not be a Republican.
They are consciously splitting the ticket at the state level, and not by a small margin.. Its not like Oh the D got in in a squeaker and the R won in a landslide, or even the opposite, the R got in in a squeaker while the D won in a landslide... Its a conscious and pronounced ticket split...
Governor will get 60% of the vote, and Pocahantas will get 55% or so... so this this is a very clear and conscious ticket split by the electorate, and I am just trying to understand the underlying dynamics for this.
Boston,Cambridge,Somerville are so far left and heavily populated they skew the entire state.
“My mother reflexively votes straight-ticket Dem and will never change. But she thinks “feminists” are silly and has no idea what “Neo-Marxism” or “Socialism” is. It’s just not on her radar at all. There’s a mental disconnect there.”
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Nice insult to your parents.
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-—Governor will get 60% of the vote, and Pocahantas will get 55% or so... so this this is a very clear and conscious ticket split by the electorate, and I am just trying to understand the underlying dynamics for this.——
Some Mass liberals fear the GOP in national office, and want Dems like Warren to counteract them. Nobody’s afraid of Baker and the “GOP” label attached to him. They know what he probably will or won’t do.
It’s easier for a Mass. Dem to like a state-level reasonable RINO than an actual conservative in a national office like Senator.
The governor is a democrat with an R
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