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?
And the Democratic party is further to the left than most of the voters.
So voters don't have a problem electing a Republican governor to keep an eye on the legislature and the Democrats.
The Republicans who get elected are pro-abortion and significantly to the left of the Republican party in other parts of the country.
Conservatives used to say that given the choice between a Democrat and a Democrat voters will vote for the real Democrat.
That's true when Massachusetts voters send senators and representatives to Washington.
The state is strongly Democrat and real Republicans don't win those races - or the races for most other offices.
But voters aren't averse to electing a RINO governor to keep a lid on the spending and corruption.
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Why is Massachusetts the way it is?
The Irish Catholics still vote Democrat thinking they are voting against the Yankee Protestants.
The Yankee Protestants have started voting Democrat thinking that they are voting against the Catholics (and now against the Evangelicals in other parts of the country).
And the state isn't big enough to get very far away from Harvard or Boston.
Mass is a disaster yet here I am. I hope to live to see the day when Harvard, with its trillions, pays taxes to the state!
No one ever pays their penalty. There is no payback. There is no reciprocity and shoplifting does not net you a felony.
I don’t care if lots of people do not get to vote. I don’t care if a majority do not get to vote.
But I can compromise! No voting for 20 years after you leave prison....
Since then you had candidates from the Middlesex DA's and Attorney General's office like Scott Harshbarger and Martha Coakley. They may have lost some votes because of the controversial Fells Acre's case some years back, but mostly, voters didn't like their personalities. Harshbarger was sort of like his name - harsh and barging. Coakley was such a terrible candidate in her race against Scott Brown that it's impossible to figure out why the party nominated her to run for governor.
depends on the value of mdse. stolen.....everyone pays their penalty, society decides what it is and the accused pays it. A conviction, in and of itself, has NOTHING to do with voting.
My dad is the same. Thinks Dems are all for the little guy and GOP are out to steal everyones money.
Scott Adams is right. Two people can view the same event in the same context and come away with two completely different interpretations.
Youre right. Same thing with my dad. Downplays all the D-party nuttiness like its being overblown. Itll always be 1963 for him.
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