Massachusetts, Back in the Game
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
October 20, 2006 - The Washington Post
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BOSTON--Massachusetts is often down in presidential politics, but never out.
The state that gave the United States two of its first six presidents has not had a presidential winner since John F. Kennedy in 1960. The most recent entries, Michael Dukakis and John Kerry, were dispatched by different Bushes...
Astonishingly, the hottest 2008 presidential contender from this very Democratic state is a Republican, Gov. Mitt Romney. He insists, as the scripture might have it, that he may be in Massachusetts but he's surely not of it.
In an interview with Elizabeth Mehren of the Los Angeles Times earlier this month, Romney admitted that, had he known he would go into national politics, he would have been "a lot smarter to stay in Michigan," where his father, George Romney, was governor in the 1960s. He regularly excoriates the legalization of same-sex marriage by "activist judges" in his current home state who "struck a blow to the foundation of civilization, the family..."
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