that dj has the 30-second summary on every race in the country ... I’m staying out of this one. What is the deal on Mihos?
Mihos ran an Indy candidacy in 2006, and got 7%. A somewhat schizo “R”, allegedly right on a few issues, viscerally bad on social issues (pro-abort, pro-gay marriage). Might be slightly better than Baker, but that’s damning with faint praise. I simply can’t recommend any of them. I stated I endorsed Cahill simply because I believe he’ll govern as a non-partisan (if that is remotely possible). He’ll likely do no harm to the GOP. As I’ve already said, too, unless you just want to put a nice-sounding title on your resume, a Republican running for MA Governor as long as the party is dead and the grassroots a shambles is patently absurd. It’s a figurehead post now. The real power is on Beacon Hill, invested in the Speaker and Senate President. Hell, even Patrick isn’t really powerful and is largely a joke.
The whole MA political power structure needs to be purged and reworked, it operates like one big urban political machine, massively corrupt and rotted to the core (and completely one-party with a couple of joke only-on-paper oppositionists that get some crumbs as long as they do nothing, and they don’t - and now one of those “do nothing” DIABLO statists is Baker’s running mate).