So you people are telling me that the only thing keeping Republicans from doing well in the Northeast is abortion and gay marriage?
Lol no, but social conservatism just makes it impossible.
+1. New England has it's share of "reasonable fiscal conservatism", but accent here is on "reasonable". It's mostly pro-environment too. So, Republican party would need very different candidates, then it usually runs now. Tupper or Cohen in Maine, Rudman in New Hampshire, Stafford and Jeffords in Vermont, Weicker or Rell in Connecticut, Chafee's in Rhode Island, Brooke or Weld in Massachusetts could conceivably win even now, but all of them could have big problems in present day Republican parties of their own states..
