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Old 11-05-2014, 12:31 PM
 
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Engineers too because they're cheap. Of course this is just based on my own social circle and is purely anecdotal. .

Same here. I'm an engineer, and most of my engineering coworkers are conservative.


I'm just hoping with Coakley out of the AG office i might finally be able to mail order .22LR here in MA.
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Old 11-05-2014, 12:36 PM
 
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I'm just hoping with Coakley out of the AG office i might finally be able to mail order .22LR here in MA.

Did that "masculine" lady win that race?
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Old 11-05-2014, 12:40 PM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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Oh, once you start talking about people with Masters degree and above, the percentage favors Democrats. Unless you're talking about people in finance - they're mostly Republican because they like to keep their money. Engineers too because they're cheap. Of course this is just based on my own social circle and is purely anecdotal.



You know, if republicans were really fiscally conservative. Not that trickle down crap. But really fiscally conservative, and they divorced themselves completely from the "social conservative" crud, they'd have a lot more support.

I'm rather fiscally conservative. I just want it to be consistently applied. I'd like a total do over on the social AND fiscal welfare system. But what run as Reps now seems only to be concerned with the social side of the equation. I don't get that, and I don't get how people support it.
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Old 11-05-2014, 12:44 PM
 
Location: 42°22'55.2"N 71°24'46.8"W
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I'm just hoping with Coakley out of the AG office i might finally be able to mail order .22LR here in MA.
Not a chance. Lesbians hate guns even more than little old ladies do.
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Old 11-05-2014, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Camberville
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Jeanne Shaheen is from Missouri.
And has lived in New Hampshire since 1973. Your point?
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Old 11-05-2014, 01:48 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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Not a chance. Lesbians hate guns even more than little old ladies do.
A lot of responses on this thread have made me smile. Some of them have been such typical Massachusetts talk, love it. But this one statement actually made me laugh out loud. And I know it's only anecdotal but it is quite true of the lesbians I know!
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Old 11-05-2014, 02:09 PM
 
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Not a chance. Lesbians hate guns even more than little old ladies do.
Dammit, I need .22!!!
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Old 11-05-2014, 02:17 PM
 
Location: 42°22'55.2"N 71°24'46.8"W
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Dammit, I need .22!!!
I can hook you up with a guy I know in Upham's Corner... nevermind. You can always move to NH. The commute to Billerica from Nashua might even be better than your current commute
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Old 11-05-2014, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Cambridge
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Same here. I'm an engineer, and most of my engineering coworkers are conservative.
Third-ed. My father and both grandfathers are/were engineers, all of them old school conservatives. Mind you not the "we need take out country back from socialists" kind of (not really conservative) conservatives - but spendthrift, very wary of social engineering unless it was for education or infrastructure.
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Old 11-05-2014, 03:22 PM
 
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Yes, but the legislature is usually democrat, so anytime there is a republican governor, it provides both sides representaion and checks and balances. Something y'all should be proud of.
MA voters are indeed interesting. While Romney was governor, he got little of his own way. Not unusual for Dems to be the vast majority in the legislature; Constituents like their Reps and Senators who "bring home the bacon" to their districts; then electing a Republican governor who will presumably control the spending.
When it comes to the budget, the governor can veto by reducing line items, but he (never been a woman elected) can not add. Baker made mucho dollars as head of Harvard; ought to be an interesting regime.
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