Not making this a poll because I want discussion here.
Battle of the socon Springfield pastors. Swan is a big NAACP guy and regularly gets into beef with other Christian leaders on social media over racial issues; he's rumored to have briefly considered running as a testimonial candidate in 2018. Lively is the author of
The Pink Swastika, which should need no introduction due to its title; he, of course, primaried Baker in 2018 and came closer than he had any right to (although he still got crushed). Both have said pretty pointedly homophobic (as well as anti-abortion) things in the past, although Swan seems to have quietly (by his standards) moderated or dropped those views more recently.
Imagine the MADP settles on a bomb-throwing black Pentecostal bishop as its sacrificial lamb to go down high-energy rather than with the turboboring Jay Gonzalez, and a dead girl/live boy scandal hits Baker right before the GOP primary. Lively squeaks by and come November the Massachusetts electorate is faced with a choice between two of the least "495-beltway-friendly" candidates imaginable. Do moderate
Republicans and/or affluent
Democrats stay home? Does either candidate have any crossover appeal, and if so, to whom? Its your choose. Let's discuss.
