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The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

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Swansong said:
Yeah, this tracks.
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I didn't get the "There be dragons here" part. I have no feeling for that area despite living in MA for 7 horrible years. Is it just the Quabbin Reservoir and farm folks? i.e., North Dakota?
 
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Kepler said:
I didn't get the "There be dragons here" part. I have no feeling for that area despite living in MA for horrible 7 years. Is it just the Quabbin Reservoir and farm folks? i.e., North Dakota?
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It's very rural very white and is more or less the closest thing we have to red state crap. Although there's a lot more of a fade between Worcester and this section than the map indicates.

I think the Tri-Berg area is in this too (Fitchburg, Lunenburg and... Leominster[berg]). It definitely includes towns like Winchendon (Winchentucky) and Gardner and the towns that no one has ever heard of.
 
Kepler said:
Southie is the most racist place I have ever been, including the Deep South, the Prairie, and Coeur d'Alene.
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Good call there, although it's relatively tiny and the people you describe tend never to leave.


edit: East Boston gets an honorable mention here
 
Charlie Baker said he’s not running again in Massachusetts, paving the way for really blue, liberal voters to pick another Republican to represent them after 2022.
 
psych said:
Charlie Baker said he’s not running again in Massachusetts, paving the way for really blue, liberal voters to pick another Republican to represent them after 2022.
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Looking around the state, the odds are that Attorney General Maura Healey will win. The GQP likely plans to nominate a total loon (who lost to Liz Warren 60-36 in 2018). Healey is not particularly moderate but not AOC-level left. I'm not her biggest fan but I find her generally competant and she'd very likely make a perfectly cromulent governor.

Seriously, Jeff Diehl will be destroyed by her (or any D that isn't a lefty loon). The guy is toxic to anyone outside the Trump wing of the GQP.
 
Swansong said:
Looking around the state, the odds are that Attorney General Maura Healey will win. The GQP likely plans to nominate a total loon (who lost to Liz Warren 60-36 in 2018). Healey is not particularly moderate but not AOC-level left. I'm not her biggest fan but I find her generally competant and she'd very likely make a perfectly cromulent governor.

Seriously, Jeff Diehl will be destroyed by her (or any D that isn't a lefty loon). The guy is toxic to anyone outside the Trump wing of the GQP.
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Polito not running is a huge + for Democrats. Healey is a huge favorite, so as long as a moderate businessman looking to cut taxes doesn’t step up to the plate for the GOP, Democrats should regain a +472% Biden state.

Abrams running for Governor of Georgia. Can’t wait to watch that showdown too.
 
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Abrams running for Governor of Georgia. Can’t wait to watch that showdown too.
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She runs circles around both the DNC and the RNC. I would not be the least surprised if they murder her.

If they don't we will see conservative racist vote suppression that makes 1950s Jim Crow look like the Rainbow Coalition.
 
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Polito not running is a huge + for Democrats. Healey is a huge favorite, so as long as a moderate businessman looking to cut taxes doesn’t step up to the plate for the GOP, Democrats should regain a +472% Biden state.
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She hasn't said if she is or is not (right? I haven't heard either way), but agreed otherwise. The history of Republican governors in MA is weirdly deceiving. Baker is super moderate and is vocally anti-Trump. Prior to him, we had Romney (ran and governed as a moderate), Cellucci (super moderate, if not left-leaning), Weld (similar to Celluci, and in fact was to the left of his Democratic opponent)...

Romney shifted rightwards when he left the state but is still vocally anti-Trump. Weld ran for president as a Libertarian and even urged people to vote against Trump.

I don't mind Healey at all. I may not see eye to eye with her on a number of things but she's capable and competent and seems like a pragmatist. Can't complain too much about that.
 
Swansong said:
She hasn't said if she is or is not (right? I haven't heard either way), but agreed otherwise. The history of Republican governors in MA is weirdly deceiving. Baker is super moderate and is vocally anti-Trump. Prior to him, we had Romney (ran and governed as a moderate), Cellucci (super moderate, if not left-leaning), Weld (similar to Celluci, and in fact was to the left of his Democratic opponent)...

Romney shifted rightwards when he left the state but is still vocally anti-Trump. Weld ran for president as a Libertarian and even urged people to vote against Trump.

I don't mind Healey at all. I may not see eye to eye with her on a number of things but she's capable and competent and seems like a pragmatist. Can't complain too much about that.
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https://turnto10.com/news/local/baker-polito-wont-seek-re-election-in-2022

Read an article where Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is considering a return to Mass to run for Governor. Already has $3.5 million in his old mayoral campaign account.
 
Scarlet said:
My gut says Charlie Baker is gunning for Elizabeth Warren's Senate seat.
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Maybe? The path from governor to senator has not been favorable to Republicans here, in an admittedly small sample size. And Warren is popular. Unless Markey retires and the seat opens, I would be surprised to see Baker risk losing. But you may be right, it's not like your gut is predicting something absurd.
 
Abrams is a terrific organizer, but she's going to lose again. Kemp and the GA state leg will cheat, suppress, obstruct, and overturn their way to re-election. They will close more polling locations, restrict mail-in ballots, purge the voter rolls, and if all that still fails, they will just object to and overturn any results they don't like because of vague "irregularities" that they will outright fabricate evidence of.
 
Scarlet said:
My gut says Charlie Baker is gunning for Elizabeth Warren's Senate seat.
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I think, like Sununu, Baker has his eyes on a bigger prize. He’d lose against Warren in a presidential year in Mass (and if he didn’t, y’all can go fuck your so-called liberal selves). He seems like more of an executive type, less legislative, but I can’t claim to know him that well.
Seems to have accomplished a lot for Massachusetts, which, barring a GOP trifecta in Washington come 2024 (not entirely out of the realm of possibility), he wouldn’t do in the Senate, outside of tax cuts.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Abrams is a terrific organizer, but she's going to lose again. Kemp and the GA state leg will cheat, suppress, obstruct, and overturn their way to re-election. They will close more polling locations, restrict mail-in ballots, purge the voter rolls, and if all that still fails, they will just object to and overturn any results they don't like because of vague "irregularities" that they will outright fabricate evidence of.
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Are we even sure Kemp wins the primary, what with Perdue potentially jumping in against him along with an almost certain Trump endorsement? You’re right about the rest though. Georgia is already positioning itself that way.
 
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