Posted on 10/04/2017 10:01:14 AM PDT by re_tail20
On Sept. 19, Politico congressional reporter Burgess Everett tweeted that he suddenly “[Remembers Vermont has a Republican governor].” His tweet prompted Seung Min Kim, a fellow Politico reporter who covers the US Senate, to reply that she “[Learns Vermont has a Republican governor].” That, in turn, instigated a response by Wall Street Journal congressional reporter Byron Tau: “[Googles the name of Vermont’s Republican governor].”
To which Phil Scott, Vermont’s Republican governor, responded that he “[Is Vermont’s Republican governor].”
The moment was comical but also insightful, underscoring just how little Washington’s political class knows about who holds the executive power in the Northeast.
Here’s the surprising truth: It’s not the Democrats.
Last November, while most of the country was either cheering Donald Trump’s presidential win or making an appointment with their therapist about how to cope with the results, New Englanders in four out of the region’s six “blue” states — Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine — woke up the next morning with four Republican governors.
Two of those governorships flipped from blue to red. It was a trend that the Northeast had not seen for a generation, but it received little national attention. (Connecticut and Rhode Island hold their governorship elections in 2018.)
If the reverse had happened, and four Democrats had won governorships in deep red states last year, the news would have been treated quite differently, said Brad Todd, a Washington, DC-based GOP strategist.
“It would have been on the front pages of every major newspaper in the country. And debated for weeks about how it spells the demise of the Republican Party,” Todd said.
Vermont’s Scott won in a landslide, defeating his Democratic opponent by 9 percentage points while facing two political fronts that should have knocked him out of contention: the candidacy of Trump, who...
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Exactly. We can’t leave CT yet (we do plan to in a few years), but I hope we can get out before home prices drop drastically...
I lived in Ft Laud/Pomp and Melbourne/Indialantic from 68 to 2002.
Came back to the cesspool to look after a parent. Heading back ASAP.
Sad thing is Fl place increased in val and this (tolland cnty) decreased. Its only going to get worse so I am out ah here.
Considered SC but still gets cold in winter. Not like this but ya need to turn on the heat.
They are dropping as we speak.
If you can try to buy now in the South and put this place up.
I can buy a place but no cash flow for 2 tax,HO and ins bills.
working on the wife....showed her much money a move to TN would save...and we have relatives down there....it will happen.
Isn’t Lepage doing what he can to dismantle the welfare state up there? I realize the “refugees” get whatever they want, but I would think and HOPE, that he’s making life uncomfortable for them up there, with the intention that they’ll move to Minneapolis.
I stand corrected!
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