Massachusetts

He was a lousy governor, but some people go with the "all politics is local" POV. Still others are stupid and think that he will give us something if he wins. I will NOT assume that BHO will take MA without effort from all of us. It's just as easy for a nitwit to lead with the former governor and follow along with the nudie senator from the same damn lousy party.

I have to say, I resent it when Mittsy The Shittsy talks about "my state." He never says "Massachusetts." It's like he doesn't want to say, for fear of pissing of the teabaggers, the name of a state that sounds, to their ears, like "That Socialist Hellhole Full of Annoying Progressive Types." And he really isn't "from" here. He wasn't born here. He went to school here and he destroyed corporations all across the country from a base here--hardly anything to be proud of. He spent his spare time in Utah, at his ski chalet mansion where Utah gave him a HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION on his taxes. When he became governor, his security detail would be seen north of the border more often than within them. He's more at home in Utah or NH. All he ever did for MA is make a few real estate agents happy with his purchase and sale of a home in Belmont and the purchase of a home in the Vineyard, and he kept builders happy for a short while with the construction of that prison-like ugly-ass, hideous eyesore of a Mormon Temple in Belmont.

Anyway--I take nothing for granted. GOTV will be key. And if you don't think those hatemongering, wingnut talk show hosts--and we've got some real assholes, here--won't be GOTVing themselves, think again. And they've got a helluva platform, an audience of trapped commuters, five days a week.