It’s an interesting observation — but from my experience, a Republican in New England would be considered a Marxist in most other parts of the country.
I’d love to see Democratic Governor Reimondo humiliatingly defeated in RI. Also I think Jack Reed could be persuaded to switch parties. He can’t be happy being associated with the other socialists in his party.
The bubble the National Press lives in is getting smaller and smaller every year.
People like Chuck Todd think they can fly a few hundred miles away, sit in on a focus group - and be ‘connected’ to what’s happening.
They’re fools....
And one of the reasons we keep winning.
As for the New England region as a whole there is not,IIRC,a *single* Republican Congresscritter representing the region.Massachusetts,11 Rats...Connecticut,8 Rats...New Hampshire,4 Rats,etc.
Oooppps...made a mistake,Susan Collins is from Maine.And I also forgot that DJT got *one* Electoral Vote from New England.
Maybe we *are* trending Republican! (/sarcasm).
Equaly interesting is to remember that Bill Clinton was once the governor of Arkansas.
My guess is that they are not “missing it” as much as they are deliberately ignoring.
New England Republicans are no different than Democrats. Still a very liberal region. Trump will still lose the NE states by large margins again in 2020.
Phil Scott is not a republican in my book but in socialist Vermont he’s a Conservative. Here in New Hampshire we have Chris Sununu, also right of Shaheen and Hassan but not by much
>>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,
The latter group needs to ask for their money back, from what I see the coping isn’t happening.
A Republican in New England might not be a conservative, but I would say mostly a libertarian Republican. My cousins from Maine, Vermont and Connecticut are more of a small government and they are for gun rights, but gay marriage and legalization of drugs are their causes, also. (One of my cousins is gay.) DeplorableAmerican (aka dad) said that Connecticut will flip in 2018.
Aside from the current Maine gov, LePage, the most conservative governor in NE in my lifetime was Ed King of Mass, a Democrat.
The media is missing everything, the long overdue realignment of the upper midwest they never saw coming, but was obvious it was going to happen for 30+ years.... especially once the one thing that had kept this region D, that being industrial/manufacturing and the union employees they had evaporated... Had Republicans not been stupid they could have flipped the upper midwest/rust belt decades ago.
New England is on the same path....Probably won’t happen all at once like the upper midwest did, will be likely more incremental like the south realignment happened, but it will indeed happen.
Demcorat party has only the coastal metro states left... The southwest may see some demographic immigration shifting, but that’s their only prayer and expansion in the near future... they are in decline everywhere.