How did Massachusetts get a Republican governor?

Eric J in MN

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Sat May-22-04 04:10 PM
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How did Massachusetts get a Republican governor?

NY got Pataki after there was a violent crime and many people wanted the death penalty re-instated, which it was.

MN got Pawlenty because of a three-way race.

How did Massachusetts get a Republican governor?

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kiahzero

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Sat May-22-04 04:12 PM
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1. I'm told it was because of education

One of my good friends here at school is from Massachussets. She (a liberal, btw), was telling me that Romney had 'the right ideas' on education, and that was enough to convince the Massachussets voters to pick him.

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Eric J in MN

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Sat May-22-04 04:22 PM
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2. if he genuinely had better ideas about education than his opponent, then

If he genuinely had better ideas about education than his opponent, then that is fair.

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Killarney

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Sat May-22-04 04:28 PM
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3. Mass. has had Republican governors for the last 12 years

Because both the state house and senate is strongly Democratic, I think people idiotically think they need a R governor to "balance things out".

Romney is the worst governor the state has had in modern history, IMO.

Previous R governors (like Bill Weld) weren't that bad. Romney is the WORST.

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Raven

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Sat May-22-04 04:35 PM
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5. Right on all counts!

Voters in Mass elect democrats to the house and senate and then feel guilty so they elect a Repub Gov. to reign in the folks they've elected to the legislature. It leads to nothing more than grid lock. We have done this time and time again...we never learn! And yeah, this guy Romney gets the prize...he has done nothing...lately he's gone after 8 out-of-sate gays who got married in Mass. I guess the world would have ended if he let 'em get away with it.

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stellanoir

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Sat May-22-04 04:34 PM
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4. pretty boy politics. . .

he's so-o-o attractive (sarcasm off). . .he was even technically a Nevada resident at the time. Was really strange. A businessman with no political experience gets elected. . .wrote it off entirely though the same thing occurred in my state.

Oh and by the way. . .we had selected a failed businessman to the most powerful position in the world . . .but nevermind.

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Rockholm

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Sat May-22-04 04:49 PM
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7. Actually, he was a resident of Utah...

He had the tax forms to prove it. Oh, wait, we did not get to see them. Anyway, Weld was an incedible governor. Romney sucks. Shannon O'Brien was his rival for gov and sadly she was not very good. Oh well, we only have to look at his pretty face for 2 more years.

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jorno67

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Sat May-22-04 04:49 PM
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8. Romney is the right guy to follow in shrubs footsteps

a Repug without a clue who will ruin his state as gov and then in 2008 will set his sites on destroying America.

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JI7

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Sat May-22-04 04:36 PM
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6. that woman who ran against him was a bad candidate

if robert reich won the primary he would probably have won and be governor.

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