Considering the Scott Brown debacle a few years ago, and generally poor performance by Democrats in special elections (inferior turnout being the big culprit), this is pretty good news for Democrats. They certainly didn't take the seat for granted this time, leaving no doubt... http://www.boston.com/politicalinte...ection-mass/Usgk0SJybrxtlFyMfIlFkK/story.html It also comes on the same day President Obama announced executive action on reducing carbon pollution. Ed Markey is a climate hawk, who lead the effort in the House in 2009 to pass climate legislation (Waxman-Markey). MA is now back to 2 liberal Democratic Senators, both strong on the environment. I also really like what I'm seeing from Warren on other issues.
The smartest campaign move Gomez made was declining McConnell's and Boehner's offers to go to Massachusetts to campaign with him. That would have been like posing with Jeffrey Dormer at the grand opening of your new steak house. Markey's was manning an ice cream truck and handing out free goodies in mid-90ยบ weather on voting day to commemorate his job during college. Rightists believe all progressive election victories in America are attributable to popsicles gratis.
A few things irk me with regards to Markey: 1. Many of his bills are vague. I have read quite a few of his proposed bills on climate change, renewable energy, and sustainability. Many of them lack definitions and explicit language to give the laws strength, clarity, and henceforth, lack of legal ambiguity. 2. He did not vote in favor of auditing the Federal Reserve. Whether or not you believe the Federal Reserve needs to be eliminated, you should at least want to maximize the transparency and accountability of our country's central bank. Authorizing a more robust and independent audit of the Federal Reserve guarantees that this is a reality. 3. He did not vote in favor of repeal of ObamaCare. For all that is good when it comes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, there is twice as bad. Comprehensive health care reforms requires the expansion of health care markets and choice, most bluntly through the creation of a single-payer public option. 4. He failed to hold Eric Holder accountable for Operation Fast and Furious. 5. He has voted against the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts on multiple occasions despite the basic economic knowledge that tax cuts are one of two means of fiscal stimulus during a recession/recessionary gap. I could go on, but I will my criticisms at this point for now.
... the state with the highest percentage of college graduates in the nation. No, no one should be surprised. 1 Massachusetts 38.2% 2 Colorado 35.9% 3 Maryland 35.7% 4 Connecticut 35.6% 5 New Jersey 34.5% 6 Virginia 34.0% 7 Vermont 33.1% 8 New York 32.4% 9 New Hampshire 32.0% 10 Minnesota 31.5% 41 Tennessee 23.0% 42 Oklahoma 22.7% 43 Indiana 22.5% 44 Alabama 22.0% 45 Nevada 21.8% 46 Louisiana 21.4% 47 Kentucky 21.0% 48 Mississippi 19.6% 49 Arkansas 18.9% 50 West Virginia 17.3
Wonder what percentage of those college degrees are in useless majors like political science and victims' groups studies? Or in these day...law.
The sad fact is that we still have that 45% of "flat earth" people. On certain issues, MA citizens can be pretty conservative. Thank god, they usually send liberals to Congress.
So, you are saying that indoctrination works?!? Left wing academia can indoctrinate their subjects & control the ideology of the masses! Propaganda works! I think we already know that..
That is the line that those who do not like the results of higher education take. They see the acquisition of knowledge as a conspiratorial enterprise. As ludicrous as that is, the statistics I posted leave them little squirm room, I guess. .
I have no reason to believe that, if Henry Kissenger had gone down the road and earned a degree in aerospace engineering at MIT, he would have been more savvy in his governmental career than he was with his political science degree from Harvard. Anti-intellectual prejudice regarding academic achievement makes little sense. .
A truly educated person would know what a conspiracy actually is and not misuse the word so egregiously. Again, a really smart person would not discount that our colleges are absolutely dominated by left wing thinkers. That a self selected group of people in that system would think alike is really no surprise, nor is uniformly being mistaken a mark of distinction. Quite the contrary.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ed+...t&rls=com.yahoo:en-US:official&client=firefox Of course he won. The guy has been on the campaign trail non stop. He doesnt give a flying (*)(*)(*)(*) about actually doing his job. Cant be bothered to actually show up and vote.
you beat me to it MA, the state that kept re-electing a Democrat drunken killer goes and elects a Democrat That voting is about as newsworthy as a thirsty man drinks water
It is a conspiratorial enterprise. We want more educated people to see through the lies of the right.
That the people of Massachusetts returned a moral zero like Ted Kennedy to Congress year after year despite the Kopechne killing, despite sabotaging our immigration system forever, despite plotting with the Soviet Union through the KGB to defeat Reagan, despite rampant alcoholism and grope fests that left a trail of staff workers, waitresses and assorted other women in the wake of sexual assaults throughout his entire life, despite his being expelled from Harvard for cheating and more, says much about the "merit" of the educations one gets in Massachusetts.
The stark contrast in political orientation in the best- and worst-educated states, and the similar breakdown in health, longevity, family stability, income, etc., is an incentive for some to rage against education. Thomas Jefferson would be appalled.
The Economist disgraced itself by leaving (as it does more and more) the discussion of economics to back right-wingers such as Gomez with political puffs. I hope this stops 'em.
We love stuff like that here in Mass. We're educated enough to look past Kennedy's drunken death toll, people who purposely abuse the affirmative action systems by claiming they're minorities, and Gay guys with a Gay Prostitution ring running out of their homes. No surprise here who was always going to win. Thankfully there was 45% who seemed to feel otherwise, hopefully that number is growing over time.
