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And this is a position of strength? (2 Replies)

Last I checked, not too many people win elections with “WAAAH! My opponent just PICKED ON ME!”

Seems like Republicans want to paint Dems as wusses all the time, but cry like tiny, tiny babies when someone dares to throw the simplest and most obvious political attack at them.

I mean, how could Gomez possibly expect his recorded stance on gun control (or rather, lack of gun control) NOT to come into play, when Markey plastered the airwaves with his strong take on the matter, in his own primary??

No, this is the desperate and poor attempt at spinning because Gomez knows his actual position is deeply unpopular here and does not play with more than the lonely island that is the Republican base in this state.

Actually, specifically (1 Reply)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

Though there are several things listed, the one I’ve always heard is that it was started because of the fear by the opposition that word Democratic (“big D”) would be conflated with “little d” democratic.

The wiki article states “Ruth Marcus stated that Republicans likely only continue to employ the term because Democrats dislike it.” — there’s probably some truth to that, besides the fact that it’s childish name calling without using a childish name…examples from our side are the use of “Repuglican” etc – except, Nancy Pelosi doesn’t use that term, and no elected official I ever heard of uses it, whereas W Bush used it all the time and so does half (or more) of the nationally elected members of the Republican party.

Personally, I find it a lot less offensive than, say, the use of the word “macaca,” but all of that comes from the same impulse from a certain set of personality and brain type, mostly from a certain party, at least these days.

Undersampling? (1 Reply)

I think that depends on what a typical “special election” makeup tends to look like. And we seem to have a lot of data for that…so we can check it. But I imagine that you’d see more partisans at a special election than in the regular cycle.

Unenrolleds are (often) almost as apathetic about the act of voting as they are about picking a side. (With notable exceptions, of course.)

Hard to believe (2 Replies)

that he would get so unhinged so quickly. We’re used to this sort of behavior in MA Republican candidates’ lackey (*coughEriccough*) but this is pretty…well, frankly, amateur. And this sort of waaaaah victim! attitude plays very poorly for a candidate who is largely undefined in the minds of even many of the diehard voters who show up to special elections.

RMG must be collectively beating their heads on walls right now.

Wow (1 Reply)

I think the media ought to ask Gomez what his stance is on child labor. Honestly, it’s almost a straight line between being a part of this company’s rise, and condoning its apparently asshole CEO.

Good GOD. So, Mr. Gomez, do you admire Lululemon’s CEO, and if so, do you agree with his stance on child labor and insulting the Japanese language?

Especially as (2 Replies)

it appears Gomez is putting a lot of his eggs in the “I’m a job creator” basket.

Our local org (1 Reply)

out in my neck of the woods was basically the Warren campaign redux, and they were GUNG HO for working for Markey, too.

Yeah it seems to me (0 Replies)

if you want to talk about any “elites” “choosing” Markey, it was the other heavyweights who decided NOT to run, which, if I’m not mistaken, is entirely their own prerogative. I don’t think I’ve heard ANY substantive evidence there was pressure on Capuano or McGovern to not run?

Well I can only hope (0 Replies)

Some other city was more dismal than Lowell…if only for my civic pride…

Boston.com too (0 Replies)

Shows the vote lead for Forry, but checkmark still up by Collins’ name.