MA-3: After Tsongas

[Brittain33]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/29/barbara-litalien-clarence-thomas-impeachment-801680

Too bad this district is Safe D.

Why? You know the primary isn't until next week and she's just one person in the clown car, albeit a strong one?

[Brittain33]

A lot of crazy talk here.

Does not matter, this seat is not flipping in 2018 on the congressional level even in your wildest dreams.

Especially with a well-known conservative Green as a Republican candidate. Republican party in heavily blue states (like Massachusetts) more and more becomes a "puristic sect" of far-rightists, not the really "broad tent party" it generally was few decades ago. To be honest - parallel process is going in Democratic party in solidly red states (Utah, for example, and many southers states), where Democratic party becomes representative of only minority (religious in Utah case (mostly - non-Mormons), racial - in most of the South), not a "full spectrum" of people...

yep, this is correct. When you are in a state that has one dominating party and the other with a tiny minority party(like HI, or UT), the moderates, even if they lean to the minority party, will join the dominating party. This causes a cycle where the minority party becomes more and more extreme. When the South made the flip, the ones in control of the party were the reactionaries, which, now that they were given power, were able to enact their agenda. Its also the same reason that states like CT, WA, VT and NH have some of the most progressive D state senators and legislators, while states that have been D forever, like RI, and MA have a lot of moderates and conservative Dems.

So, TX, AL and OK will have considerable number of moderate Republicans in legislature soon?

TX’s departed House Speaker was a moderate Republican who I believe had some Democratic support.