MA-Emerson College: Dems tied, Trump 50%

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

As a Masshole, I can confirm that Trump's (horrible, nonsensical, upsetting, faith-in-humanity-shaking) Catholic appeal is real, although not that real.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Looks like Pope Francis can't stump the Trump even in the most catholic states.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: American Christians are filthy casuals.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I think there might to some extent be an Irish/Italian divide among Massachusetts Catholics on Trump. This is entirely anecdotal, but nobody in my Italian Catholic extended family, which includes a diversity of political opinion in general, can stand him.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I think there might to some extent be an Irish/Italian divide among Massachusetts Catholics on Trump. This is entirely anecdotal, but nobody in my Italian Catholic extended family, which includes a diversity of political opinion in general, can stand him.

Interesting. In your absence, I mentioned that mine does, but it suffers from a severe gender divide. Of course New York =/= Boston, but Philly Italians I know seem to be slowly gravitating to him.

My family's actually ancestrally Springfield-based, though nowadays mostly in Worcester County or on Cape Cod. Sensibilities between Greater Boston People and Western Mass People, regardless of ethnic or religious group, are different enough that even after a generation or so of moving around that might still make a difference.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I think there might to some extent be an Irish/Italian divide among Massachusetts Catholics on Trump. This is entirely anecdotal, but nobody in my Italian Catholic extended family, which includes a diversity of political opinion in general, can stand him.

Huh, that's strange because my Sicilian Catholic family from Medford just loves him. We were at a wake for an aunt a couple months ago and everyone was just Trump crazy, whether it was the conservatives, moderates or liberals.

Again, it might also be a Greater Boston/Western Mass divide. My family, even my Southborough family and my Yarmouthport family, still think and vote like they're from Hampden County.

MA-01: Trump 41, Rubio 21, Kasich 19, Cruz 6
MA-02: Trump 48, Kasich 17, Rubio 14, Cruz 11
MA-03: Trump 53, Rubio 16, Cruz 8, Kasich 5
MA-04: Trump 47, Cruz/Rubio/Kasich 14
MA-05: Trump 39, Kasich 23, Rubio 15, Cruz 9
MA-06: Trump 54, Rubio 20, Cruz 16, Kasich 5
MA-07: Trump 49, Rubio 29, Kasich 19
MA-08: Trump 67, Rubio/Cruz 14, Kasich 5
MA-09: Trump 61, Kasich 11, Rubio 7, Cruz 4

...as indeed these numbers would seem to corroborate to an extent (although I will note that Medford specifically is in the least Trump-friendly district in the state). The obvious negative class correlation here is upsetting but the exact opposite of surprising.

Or there could be no causation going on here at all and your family and mine are both just anecdotal outliers.