[Osage Orange]

Also Barney is entrenched and thought well-of in the northern part of the district (Brookline, Newton) which are the population centers

I just spit-up...and got a headache.

How in the world could Frank....be well thought of?

I can't fathom that..............

[sonnysteelgrave]

Those areas are populated by fellow travellers and Barney does pay attention to his base back home

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How in the world could Frank....be well thought of?

We'll find out in a few hours just how popular he is now.

Newton/Brookline is very liberal country. Also, there's a generational component: in the 70s and 80s young liberal professionals organized to throw out the older generation. Afterward they had a lot emotionally invested in Barney and they were joined by the next generation of young liberal professionals.

By this point, though, if Barney Frank gets reelected it will be because his constituents really don't like Republicans, and think that he may be a bastard but he's their bastard. If he gets defeated it's because they know he's just a bastard in it for himself.

I did notice a certain amount of eye-rolling when the Boston Globe repeated Barney's mendacious self-defense and endorsed him. Even some people who share his political point of view are sick of him. Maybe there may even be enough people like that to defeat him this year.