November 5, 2014

Election Day, 2014, Massachusetts

http://www.wbur.org/2014/11/04/massachusetts-election-updates

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Falchuk got just over 3% of the vote, which is what he was aiming for. I am sure he and his Party would have welcomed a greater percentage, but he got what he needed.

Three Green Rainbows ran, though none for Governor. http://www.green-rainbow.org/

All lost, of course. (I'm embarrassed that I did not even know the Green Rainbows had sued the Secretary of State!)

Just as a gut reaction, not based on research, ballot questions seemed to go the way of those who spent a lot of money on TV ads.

I voted the opposite of the way I thought the big ad buy spenders seemed to want me to vote. I did hesitate some about automatic tax indexing, though. I think accountability is important, though perhaps it is more of an illusion than anything else.

And, again, our very own Scott Brown lost in New Hampshire. That makes me smile every time I think of his cynical, Koch loving smirk.

November 1, 2014

I never saw anyone on this board say that, except in posts like your own Reply 55.

By that I mean the kind of posts that, like your Reply 55 try to pretend that traditional Democrats and liberal Democrats are somehow aligned or associated with Republicans. There is less than no truth to that.

If any group of Democrats is somehow aligned with Republicans, that group would be the New Democrats, both those in office and their unconditional supporters, not traditional Democrats or liberal Democrats.

Our current New Democrat President did say that, in the 1980's (when Raygun was head of the Republican Party), he (Obama) would have been considered a moderate Republican.

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/obama-considered-moderate-republican-1980s/story?id=17973080

Like Hillary, I take Obama at his word.

Moreover, when Obama and Hillary were running against each other in 2008, each of them put Ronald Reagan on his/her list of ten best American Presidents ever. That's very interesting, since no sane, respectable historian ever knocks Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR and Truman off that list. So, only five slots are open--and, for Hillary, only four. Yet New Democrats Obama and Hillary both used one of the few remaining slots to exalt Reagan.