PoliticoMA has published an excerpt from the upcoming edition regarding our fair Commonwealth:
“Massachusetts, an affluent, highly educated state at the top of its economic game, is one of the nation’s bluest states, but it defies pigeonholing. The Bay State voted for Hillary Clinton by a 27-point margin – yet many of the same voters remained perfectly happy with their Republican governor, Charlie Baker, giving him one of the highest approval ratings in the country…Massachusetts’ population has grown by 4 percent since 2010, including significant immigration, some from Ireland but also from Brazil; Massachusetts is perhaps the most multi-national part of the United States.”
As for the state’s congressional delegation, Sen. Elizabeth Warren gets the biggest spread. “By [summer 2015], Warren had succeeded in defining the battle lines of the 2016 contest for the Democratic presidential nomination – perhaps as much, if not more so, than if she had run…
“As Warren did her best to deflect attention away from 2020 and onto her re-election bid, she appeared to be doing the types of things typical of a potential presidential candidate. In 2017, she was given a seat on the Armed Services Committee – reminiscent of a move that [Sen. Edward] Kennedy made in the early 1980s, as he sought to bolster his foreign policy credentials in advance of a possible White House run. In the spring of 2017, Warren published her 11th book, The Fight is Our Fight – notable for its absence of post-mortems on the Democratic failures of 2016, and the attendant risk of offending players who could be helpful in the future.”
