The area around Worcester has trended red. Worcester itself has pretty much remained blue.  

This is bullshit, tbh. I am a practicing Catholic. I have no problem voting to maintain the rights of trans people.  Also, as difficult as it is to believe, Catholics have consistently supported the rights of the LGBT at higher rates than other Christian denominations. A majority of Catholics support LGBT rights. Yes,…

I think that is probably right (and it will still be an overwhelming win) but it would be great if it could stay in the 70/30 range.

More recent polls have 71 percent voting yes (to 21 percent voting no) and 73 percent voting yes (to 17 percent voting no). It is very unlikely to pass. But still, it is important to be out there educating people as to why the right vote is Yes on 3. 

This article doesn’t mention that the most recent polls have the Yeses winning by a lot (https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2018/09/26/massachusetts-ballot-questions-2018-question-3).

While early polls may have indicated that the question will be contentious, the most recent polls have MA voters voting to retain the current public accommodations by 71 percent and 73 percent.

Matt Smith actually isn’t the bad guy here, no matter how much we want to blame a systemic problem on one person.  A systemic undervaluing of women’s work is the bad guy, Smith just happens to benefit from it. He didn’t cause the problem, though.

Fact is that it is really difficult for some to give up their “Taylor Swift Represents Everything that is Wrong with America and Especially White Women” narrative because they are really invested in it and they aren’t interested in questioning the intersectional misogyny that underpins it. This piece is just another…

While I agree with the general thesis of this piece, the talking point that “no one had an issue with victims of the clergy sexual abuse crisis coming forward” really needs to die.

Apparently he had also played Twain earlier in his career, which I didn’t know until about 10 minutes ago (after looking him up on wikipedia to see if he is still alive. Good news is that he is).

I saw it mentioned a few places, as part of his mini-comebacks in the 90s.

She used to give interviews about how opposite she was politically than her character. Interestingly enough, she was married to Hal Holbrook who, of course, played Mark Felt aka Deep Throat in All The President’s Men.  He was more liberal than she was. 

Yes, it is. It was mentioned quite a bit when the film was first released.

Oh please. Cherry pick anyone’s record - including Ayanna’s - and you are going to find something you don’t like about them.  If you think one vote cancels out 20 years worth of liberal policies, then I am going to say you are an ideological purist who will never be satisfied.

It’s absolutely gendered - it’s the presumption that a movie geared toward women, a movie that deals with subjects that are thought of as “women’s” subjects, can’t possibly be better than a serious war movie.

Capuano did those things.  Regardless, that doesn’t stop a majority party from enacting the agenda they want to enact. 

Except for his race and gender (no small things, to be sure), he wasn’t politics as usual. That was the point we were making. There were very good reasons why Ayanna won, but it’s not because Capuano was some sort of rubber stamp for politics as usual, either within or without his party.

You really want to make this a dogfight. But those of us who live in this district are telling you that you are wrong, so you may, I don’t know, want to listen to us. Pressley wasn’t referring specifically to Capuano with that quote, she was talking about the system. Really and truly, not everything needs to be cast…

What TheLostJedi said is different from what you initially said, though. (And please do keep in mind that Ayanna Pressley’s agenda is basically the same as Capuano’s agenda, so if you are blasting his agenda, you are blasting hers. The truth is that Capuano was NEVER a centrist Democrat, he was ALWAYS reliably very lib…

He wasn’t a garbage person - he had a very liberal voting record and delivered a lot to the district. (He was also in the minority for most of the time he served, which is why you likely never heard of him). Ayanna Pressley herself noted that there wasn’t much difference between them when it came to issues, etc.