Are:
1. A lousy candidate. I'm sure Martha Coakley is a good A.G. but...
2. Democratic party laxity. Were the Dems thinking this was Animal House? "They have to take me - I'm a legacy!"
3. No youth vote. The kids won't come out for bland middle-aged white ladies.
4. No Kennedys. The Dynasty looks to have run its course, leaving a political vacuum.
5. Mass. already has a great health care system. Why should they pay for others?
6. Mass. voters not as progressive as thought. Remember the "Southies" stoning buses of black students during the forced integration of Boston schools?
7. Mass. is a "donor" state, giving more tax revenue to the federal government than they get back. Why add health care?
8. Shay's Rebellion in a tea bag.
9. Photogenic former Cosmo male nude fold-out w/photogenic wife, "available" daughters.
10. [Enter your reason here_______________________________________].
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Some have been commenting on the way the U.S. Senate does its business with the automatic "filibuster" of 41 against any legislation. A rule that takes 67/100 votes to change, painting the Senate into its own corner. The only other option is to go "constitutional" (read: "nuclear")if Joe Biden were bidden to do so. As it is now, 41 beats 59. The Constitution allows the Senate to make its own rules, but called for super-majorities only for certain high-level appointments and treaties. I would like to believe that if some senator, or the Democratic Party brought suit, it would not survive a SCOTUS ruling. But after the Taney Court-like decision that opens the corporate $$ floodgates, Plutocracy now trumps democracy. American expatriates have good reason to feel vindicated and guiltless for giving up on the republic.
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