Then why did those idiots keep voting for the idiot?
‘Then why did those idiots keep voting for the idiot?’
Voting Dem was, as best I could tell, a cultural thing. Dems might not be that great [from a MA POV] but Republicans were always considered worse. Even so, iirc, Kerry had a couple of somewhat close races. He wasn’t considered to be in the same league as Kennedy. Nevertheless, in a culture as steeped in Dems-good/GOPers-bad as MA, a mediocre D-Senator was considered better than the alternative.
Notice all that finally changed, however, with Scott Brown. It was largely an anti-Obamacare vote, & historically Martha Coakley has been an awful candidate. (She is the one who said the seat belonged to Kennedy, to which Brown came back with ‘no; it belongs to the people of MA’. She was the gift that kept giving that way; one gaffe after another.) Still I think Brown could have held it if he’d been less squishy once elected. The way he voted & then campaigned, the people of MA had a choice between a true Dem & a fake Dem. They went w the fake Indian, sadly.