Maine results thread.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

I don't really understand the Romney-hatred. Back in the Bush days, Democrats were always lamenting the lack of moderate Republicans. Romney is no moderate, but at least he is about as close as we can get in these days.

can't speak for everyone, and I was a certified idiot during the Bush days, but this isn't complicated.  Romney is basically a non-ideological candidate (perhaps Bush, as a figurehead for the forces behind him, was more ideological in this sense, or at least he thought he was)... but Romney so represents what is wrong with everything ever, is so intertwined with the private dictatorships that seek to destroy us every day, that he is in fact the living embodiment of these forces, in demonstrable fact as well as aesthetic.  unfortunately it is the latter part of that that makes him such a punching bag (and is also as a result what you seem to be counter-reacting to)

Good post.