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.
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.
“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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No, he's not.
The base is up in arms with Char-lie.
If he wins in 3 weeks, it will be the 'Rats voting for him.
He has done TOO many RECENT things to piss us off.
Most real republicans I know here will either blank the vote or write-in Scott Lively (even though Scott has asked folks to not do that). Some may vote for the 'Rat, with the notion no improvement comes without hitting rock bottom (presuming we are not there already).
A lot of truth in that statement.
I am a right wing democrat who has no party now.
Another right wing democrat, Ronald Reagan, said it best with: "I didn't leave my party, they left me."
I left when they lynched Judge Bork, and have not voted for the socialists masquerading as a democrat since.
I have since, voted for the Republicans who will do less damage to the country. -Tom