The Massachusetts Curse

[cope1989]

Since JFK we have never had a president from the state of Massachusetts, but we've had three nominees from the state. All were defeated partly due to their popular image of being elitist and out of touch. Is this something that just happens to be unique to each candidate, or is it the Massachusetts label that has harmed them?

Is the average voter prejudiced towards Massachusetts, in that we think everyone there is either wealthy, too smart for their own good, or dangerously removed from the everyday problems of Americans? I've been to Mass a few times and the people there certainly seem as average as they do in any other state, but maybe that's not how most of us think.

[Xiivi]

The fact that they keep getting nominated when we have so many other states with potential candidates show that they don't have a prejudice towards them.  They've just dropped the ball when it comes to the actual election as opposed to the primaries.