Mapquest.dem: what's the matter with Massachusetts? The democrats are far too dependent on it. Go Midwest, young man.

IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BECOMING THE NEW England party? In 2004, the candidates who dominated the Democratic presidential primaries, beginning with the one in New Hampshire, were Howard Dean of Vermont and John Kerry of Massachusetts. In 2004, as ill 1988, the Democrats nominated a liberal Massachusetts politician to run against a conservative member of the Bush family from Texas.

And each time, the Texan won a majority of the popular vote as well as the electoral vote. This time, the senator from Massachusetts lost in part because the decision by the state's Supreme Judicial Court ...

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