Lowell (MA) Sun endorses Bush

[Silent Hunter]

This is in MA-5 where Kerry ran for the House in 1972.

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[Filuwaúrdjan]

The day that Lowell votes for Bush is the day hell freezes over.

[angus]

I visited Lowell once.  Had a buddy who was a high-school science teacher in the school there.  Big guy, all carnivore.  My impression:  It's about an hour northeast of Boston.  Very blue collar, but with some artsy types.  Normally, I'd say white collar folks like the GOP, blue-collar types like the dems.  At least that's the way it is in flyover country, and used to be that way everywhere.  But times are a'changin.  When I lived in Boston, I noticed that the well-educated white-collar crowd actually preferred Kerry over Weld, and Gore over Bush, and the southies, typically blue-collar tenth-generation irish-americans, liked Bush over Kerry.  (?!?!)  Plutocracy ain't what it used to be.  Give it another few years and the cycle that Bill Clinton set in motion will be complete.  The affluent will prefer the dems, and the poor folks will like the GOP.  The way it was a hundred years or so before now.  Before Franklin Roosevelt came along.

I say that sort-of tongue-in-cheek.  As I can't imagine Dick Cheney's capitalist crowd jumping ship that fast.  Only wanted to point out the bizarre alliances we have now.  I'd agree that, based on the few previous elections, and the fact that Kerry isn't of yankee stock the way bush is (read:  papist, as opebo might say) that the stereotypical lowell type would favor Kerry over Bush.  Still, stranger things have happened. 

(last time I talked to him, my buddy that I mentioned was still undecided.  but then that was before Bush's dismal performance in the debate.)

[lidaker]

Wasn't Paul Tsongas from Lowell?

And welcome back, angus.

[angus]

  I'm not back.  Every time I come back I get addicted and don't get any work done.  But thanks! 

Yeah, Tsongas was, and so was Jack Kerouac!

[DFLofMN]

Well, I guess the Crawford TX, newspaper endorsed Kerry, but I don't think Texas is going to go blue this year.

[A18]

You mean red?

[DFLofMN]

Red as republican, but blue in the sense of this forum

[Defarge]

Is this the newspaper who sunk Kerry's congressional run by endorsing the other guy?

And I believe Crawford's local newspaper endorsed Kerry.  *shrug* Damn hometown newspaper's aren't good for anything!

[MA Liberal]

I hate Lowell but it's paper doesn't sound too bad

[jimrtex]

And I believe Crawford's local newspaper endorsed Kerry.  *shrug* Damn hometown newspaper's aren't good for anything!

The publisher isn't from Crawford.  In fact, the Crawford paper didn't even exist until after Bush was elected President.

[Silent Hunter]

Lowell's NW of Boston, not NE. If you go NE of Boston, you hit the Atlantic Ocean.

[Democratic Hawk]

Has this paper ever endorsed Kerry? I got the impression from Sean Hannity that it had NEVER supported Kerry - if so, it's hardly a coup for Bush

Dave