There are probably going to be at least two parties in both places. A gubernatorial party and a legislative party. It will be an interesting dynamic seeing how it works with such big majorities in both places and Governors with strong mandates. To some extent New Hampshire will have the same situation with the first Dem majority in both houses since the 19th Century.
The Post article points out…It was during the Rep blow-out of 1994 that GW Bush rode to prominence by unseating the late Ann Richards. I wonder what national leaders emerge from this class of elected officials in six years đŸ™‚
PS – I am told that the new leader of the small band of Republicans (Sen. Richard Tisei) in the State Senate said that Deval patrick won on personality not issues. The report said he went on to claim that the public agrees with the Republicans on taxes, etc… With shrewd thinking like that I am sure they will make a comeback sometime late this Century. Odd he wouldn’t want to trust the people’s judgement just a little bit after an 18 month election cycle.
PP, I think that some folks here don’t want the vote to happen, but many of us do.
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So we can crush bigotry at the ballot box.
I DID trust the people of Mass. Those who know Better and Best prevailed.
The funny thing about Tisei’s argument is that the voters agreed with the Republicans on taxes before they started debating it. The last poll with issue positions showed about 60% now agree with Patrick on the rollback.
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New Hampshire really flipped. Both U.S. reps and both chambers went red to blue, and Gov. Lynch set a record. I wonder how much of that was helped by people moving from MA to NH in the last few years.
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By the way, take the spaces out of the HTML tags and insert a slash after the less-than in the closing tag. You can view source on any page with a blockquote to see how it’s done.
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