Is Massachusetts not that liberal/progressive?

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Where Massachusetts is one of the top 5 most liberal states in the country I also found it to be that lot of reactionary are thrown by Reagan Democrats who think Puerto Ricans are the scum of the Earth. My family is like this when I chat politics with them when I come down for a vist compare to my Vermont cousins who are very liberal. Basically the Scott Brown voters who think we should never question the scum-bag cops and that we should protect god in public events.

The current two term mayor of the largest city in Texas is an open lesbian.

As far as I can tell Houston is the largest city in the world with a lesbian mayor.

I think the honour goes to Paris.

But Washington isn't hopelessly Democratic, it could be won by a Romney 2002/Huntsman type.

When very popular AG McKenna is not doing very hot in polls against the Congressman with no real name recognition, this hypothesis looks weak. Washington looks deceptively winnable for Republicans but getting above that 50% + 1 vote threshold is very difficult when the Democratic base is rock solid and when "swing voters" over the last ten years always break towards Democrats in contested/high-profile races.

Jay Inslee has been around for awhile now though. The guy has represented 2 different congressional districts too in Washington State.

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On Massachusetts yeah the West Side of the state of the state is liberal like Amherst. Of course Boston is pretty liberal too. Worcester isn't really that liberal though. I think Republicans like Scott Brown and the 2010 Republican Nominee for Governor Charlie Baker did well in the Eastern Part of the state. I mean a few districts in the Eastern Part of the state were trending Republican before the Redistricting happened(MA-3, MA-4, MA-6, and MA-9.)

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Every state has extremes on both sides. For instance, my insane fundamentalist aunt lives in...Essex County, New Jersey.

Yeah Essex has a big Dem base with towns like Newark, Livingston, South Orange  Maplewood, Irvington, The Oranges, Bloomfield and Montclair. Nutley and Belleville lean dem. Though towns like in the western part of the county like "The Caldwells", and Verona voted spilt their votes between McCain and Obama. Cedar Grove and Roseland are pretty Republican though.