I'm up here in Boston. A weird mix that usually ends up coming out Democratic.
The area seems to be populated by infuriated democrats who are outnumbered by much more aggressive republicans. Up here where I live it's a little richer and tends to be more republican, but the either north or south of here is fairly heavy in democratic sentiment.
Massachusetts is a big deal right now because we are about to ****can this idiot governor of ours who can't even build a ****ing tunnel right and finally get some democrats back into office (until Kerry Healey's slander campaign hit the TV, anyhow). It's very back and forth here right now--you have an ugly combination of people like me, busting our ass for our money day in and day out who want someone to recognize our time and effort keeping the local economics rolling, but also their are many people whose' jobs scale ridiculously.
Take me for example. I make enought o barely afford a car payment and rent. My friend works at CVS for 6 more hours a week and gets the same amount of money I do, because of tax differences.
My boss, however, makes enough money that she has three vacation homes. She isn't even that high in the company--it's just how things scale because of taxes here in MA. The cost of living has skyrocketed so much that it's causing a lot of inflation in the high end of the job market, which would explain the recent heavy republican migrations that I've noted.
Here might not be a good place to use; it's kind of back and forth right now. But we legalized *** marriage and that was a huge democratic blow against the republicans "Anti-G-Word, Anti-A-Word" legislature. And much like what Cuc says about PA, our area has some huge hot-button issues that just explode when brought up in political forum.
One of the primary things here is the Big Dig. If you don't know, it is a project started a long time ago to put most of Boston's major roads in the city underground in tunnels, clearing up skyline clutter. And if you know the Big Dig then you know it has been poorly built and many corners have been cut (as with all construction here), and one tunnel recently collapsed and killed some lady who probably wasn't even here legally anyway. THis has been a hot button issue because the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, the people in charge of this hackjob, are also imbibed with a certain diplomatic immunity to government involvement. Because of this our piece of crap absentee republican governor has been previously unable to inspect these tunnels with any government agencies, and that's why this kind of crap has happened. Even after the death, the governor still had to go to court to file for an injunction so that he could inspect the tunnels with independent contractors. They of course immediately found that almost all of these tunnels were completely unsafe and built pathetically poorly.
Schools are also pretty crappy out here too. Democratic governor candidate Deval Patrick is seeking to change that, but he's not that big on the Big Dig crap, which is a major issue for most of us near the city because the sons of *****es are all in the pocket of the Mayor and the Turnpike authority, which means all of our roads are built poorly and require consistent repairs which ****s up traffic for ten miles in any given direction because of how poorly our city's roadways are designed right now with the half-finished big dig.
Personally I liked the roads better before, winding around the sky, all futuristic style. Who the **** wants fifteen tunnels, anyway?
