Was Romney popular in MA as Gov? How the hell did he get elected there? nt

Quixote1818

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:49 PM
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Was Romney popular in MA as Gov? How the hell did he get elected there? nt

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Zynx

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:50 PM
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1. He finished as very unpopular.

The Democrats ran a lousy campaign against him and he ran as a hardcore liberal.

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sallyseven

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:51 PM
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6. He lied all through the campaign. Also he was

handsome. Big factor.

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Cass

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:50 PM
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2. I wonder that as well. nt

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Bombtrack

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:50 PM
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3. 2002 was a shitty, stupid year for Americans. Also, Shannon O'Brien is a hack

Edited on Sat Jan-05-08 08:52 PM by Bombtrack

she couldn't even cut it as the WB newsploitation investigative reporter.

Robert Reich was the good candidate in the Dem primary, but the progressive-left got split between him and that bald dude Warren Tolman who played Sinatra songs in his lame commercials.

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dsc

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:51 PM
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4. they had a Nader of their own

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monktonman

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:55 PM
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9. Howard Dean was their Nader?

Edited on Sat Jan-05-08 08:59 PM by monktonman

Or is that picture just in a bad place.
Please correct.

On edit: after looking at your other post's I guess your saying Ho-Ho
was their Nader. I didnt know Dr. Dean was running for governor of
Mass. I voted for him a bunch of times and if I had know he was running,
I would have left my home in VT and moved to Mass.

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dsc

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Sat Jan-05-08 09:00 PM
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13. No Dean is my signature picture

they had a third party candidate who took about double the margin that Romney won by.

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monktonman

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Sat Jan-05-08 09:04 PM
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16. OK I guess I made a double OPPPPPPPPs!

Looked at an earlier post you and I were looking at and didnt see
Dr Ho-Ho.
My bad as usual.
Got to lay off the coffee.

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Bombtrack

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Sat Jan-05-08 09:02 PM
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14. the green candidate Jill Stein got 3 and a half percent of the vote, but if you added it all

with the Dem vote together they still wouldn't have beaten Romney. He got 49 percent in change.

Another factor to be remembered are a couple memorable commercials from Dipshit Romney. One with his shirt off wrestling his sons on a beach or lake or something, and another where he pretty much had Shannon O'Brien portrayed by a dog. Yes, a dog.

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dsc

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Sat Jan-05-08 09:06 PM
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17. Sorry you are right, transposed numbers

Edited on Sat Jan-05-08 09:07 PM by dsc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election,_2002

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Rockholm

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:51 PM
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5. He ran as a moderate.

Edited on Sat Jan-05-08 08:52 PM by Rockholm

All of our former republican governors did. And they were. Weld, Celucci and Swift were all liberal/moderate socially. All are favor of gay rights. Big time.
Mitt is a flipper.

On edit: republicans in Massachusetts are different than republicans everywhere else. They are much more liberterian, socially liberal and fiscally conservative.

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Arkana

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:52 PM
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7. He was elected

because the Democrat, Shannon O'Brien, ran a shitty, underfunded campaign--and he proceeded to run the state into the ground. In the final year of his tenure he would travel to "safe" places like South Carolina and bash Massachusetts until the cows came home.

Mitt's not a popular guy here.

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stillcool

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Sat Jan-05-08 09:10 PM
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18. Jane Swift...

could not have helped Shannon O'Brien. Looking back I still confuse the two. Interesting that Cellucci is endorsing Rudy.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/01/26/rebuffing_romney_cellucci_supports_giuliani_for_president/

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bluestateguy

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:54 PM
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8. His opponent ran a nitwit campaign

Just like Harshbarger in 1998, Mark Roosevelt in 1994 and John Silber in 1990.

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The Ghost

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:55 PM
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10. Basically

Yeah he was very moderate, and our nominee Shannon O'Brien was a joke, and we had a string of GOP governors before Romney

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marlakay

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Sat Jan-05-08 09:03 PM
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15. I asked that back in 2004 and was told by some people

who live there we like our governors republican and senators democrat...but considering all the republicans were moderate that makes sense.

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madeline_con

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:58 PM
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11. Boston University article says NO.

http://www.bu.edu/washjocenter/newswire_pg/fall2006/conn/Romney.htm

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bullwinkle428

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Sat Jan-05-08 08:58 PM
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12. He was as strong (stronger?) on GLBT issues as the Democratic candidates

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Forkboy

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Sat Jan-05-08 09:12 PM
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19. We were all really, really drunk that night.

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TheCowsCameHome

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Sat Jan-05-08 09:14 PM
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20. He spent more time out of state than in. He wouldn't have been re-elected

and he knew it.

He used MA as a cheap prop for his WH ambitions.

Good riddance to him.

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