Ya think?
Add in a dash of opportunism at any cost, and you nailed it.
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Apparently Bernie Sanders has now read the letter in the Senate Chambers, and even McConnell not stupid enough to double down on this. But now getting shit for letting the dudes do it but not Warren.
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Clinton received just about 60% of the Massachusetts vote according to the electors certification document from the website of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts. Trump received around 32%. So if Republican voters in Massachusetts were the only ones disapproving of Senator Warren’s conduct, we would be able to conclude that 5% of those Republican voters actually approve of Senator Warren.
It’s almost certainly not that simple, but I suspect “many/most Democrat voters approve and many/most Republican voters disapprove” is a reasonable approximation to the real story behind that approval rating.
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They’re from New Jersey. You know who I mean.
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With Dems getting such a high %age of the vote, why does Mass. have a Republican governor? How did they elect a Republican to replace John Kerry?
What a great response. I always struggle with how to respond to that particular chestnut: it is a shibboleth of the right that everytime we say we’re a democracy they come over the top with that as if it’s a death-blow. We are both.
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Mass. has always been sort of weird about its governors; we’re a solidly blue state and traditionally vote for Democratic senators and presidents, but for governor, we tend to trend towards being ‘financially conservative’. The previous governor, Deval Patrick, was a very popular Democrat, but chose not to seek re-election; his replacement is a relatively liberal Republican.
As for John Kerry, I believe he was succeeded by a Democrat for his Senate seat.
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FOUR men have now been allowed to read this letter. For anyone still insisting that the rule had to be enforced.
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Yeah, I was thinking of Ted Kennedy and Scott Brown.
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In the end, evil always wins, I think…
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Oh, don’t be so pessimistic; eventually evil will be completely eliminated… because “evil” is an inherently human concept, and we’re the perpetual architects of our own demise.
So, chin up!
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Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try anyway. Frankly I probably have clinical depression or some related problem. I find it hard to give a damned, however even if I can’t see things working out I have to have faith that I’m wrong and some of those fence sitters can be convinced trump is bad for america and enough people will try pushing back if and when things get frighteningly bad.
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A lot of people believe “karma” to mean “cosmic justice”, that is to say, a person’s reward for their lives.
Its really just that part of our lives that only the dead care about. Us living people are all about the dharma, or life’s path.
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But misogyny is all in our pretty little heads, AMIRITE!
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Western Mass? 
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I live in a little enclave of Trumplandia here in eastern mass. They exist. My area is like New Hampshire in some ways, but with better schools ;).
Far western mass, anything north or west of Northampton is, as Rachel Maddow put it, actually in Kentucky.
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Yeah. My current town went 66%/33% for Clinton, but there were more Trump signs up than I’d like.
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