Because the state's voters, while generally loyal now to Republicans, reached a point with a bad nominee beyond which they could not be pushed. Exactly the dynamic that so rarely happens in Democrat-dominated cities, and in some of them, hasn't happened in decades..https://twitter.com/jkempcpa/status/1155207642438144001 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
New York elected a Republican mayor in 2009.
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Replying to @jbarro @baseballcrank
I have lived more time in MA under Republican governors than D governors.
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Replying to @CharlesPPierce @jbarro
The New England GOP has proven fairly resilient in gubernatorial races. Again, because the voters are not a racial or ethnic tribe acting out their resentments in the way that Democrat-run urban machines typically are, and have been since the 1830s.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @jbarro
If you think there are still D machines in local politics in MA, and that’s been the case since the 1830s, you need to get out more. Seriously.
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Replying to @CharlesPPierce @jbarro
Boston is still Boston. But my point about machines built on racial/ethnic resentment is very much true of the American cities that have gone the longest without a Republican mayor, like Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New Orleans, & DC.
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Um... so then the cities thay have had total republican control for decades don’t have “machines” built on racial/ethnic resentment? Your party is 95% white people and you spent 20 years purging voter rolls of POC voters just so a minority share could win... again, projection man
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Which cities do you refer to?
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