Can someone from Massachusetts please explain this to me...

[x]

The state legislature is more powerful than the governor.

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.

[Boardwalk]

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!

[TheTimeOfMan]

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....

[x]

Also, the Democrat candidates for governor haven't been the best. Bill Weld won because 1) Dukakis left the state in a bad condition, 2) Weld's opponent, John Silber, had a reputation as an erratic and domineering academic, which made the wealthy Establishment Weld look like a regular guy, and 3) Republican Weld was actually much more liberal than Democrat Silber. When Weld ran for reelection his opponent was a cousin of his then wife's whose only characteristic or qualification was that his last name was Roosevelt.

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.

[terycarl]

No one ever pays their penalty. There is no payback. There is no reciprocity and shoplifting does not net you a felony.

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.

[BradyLS]

My dad is the same. Thinks Dems are all for the little guy and GOP are out to steal everyone’s money.

Scott Adams is right. Two people can view the same event in the same context and come away with two completely different interpretations.

[BradyLS]

You’re right. Same thing with my dad. Downplays all the D-party nuttiness like it’s being overblown. It’ll always be 1963 for him.

[foreverfree]

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