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发帖数: 61690 | 1 Donald Trump is poised to romp across the South on Super Tuesday, cementing
a hold on the Republican presidential nomination. But it's little-watched
and deeply liberal Massachusetts that's sending shivers down Democrats’
spines.
Massachusetts, they fear, is where Trump could chart a course to the White
House.
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The state — the largest non-Southern prize on the GOP calendar next week —
is packed with the independent, blue-collar voters that will decide key
general election states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan. And if Trump
can trounce his Republicans rivals by pulling in those voters in
Massachusetts on Tuesday, Democrats are afraid he could do the same to them
nationwide in November.
"It’d be like the canary in the coal mine," said Doug Rubin, a Democratic
strategist who helped steer Deval Patrick and Elizabeth Warren to statewide
victories in Massachusetts. "If Trump is able to convince a lot of moderate-
to-conservative independents to vote in the primary and he does really well
here, that would be a warning sign for Democrats going forward."
Massachusetts is a bastion of Democratic power — and a virtual lock to go
to the Democratic nominee in the general election — but it also has a
deeply moderate streak that has enabled Republicans like Mitt Romney and
Scott Brown to prevail in statewide contests. Their coalitions depended on
wresting support from independent voters and the pockets of Reagan Democrats
in industrial cities like Lowell, Quincy and Fall River. Rubin said sharply
increased turnout in those cities, coupled with a blowout victory for Trump
, would be a worrisome sign for
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/donald-trump-massachusetts-219804#ixzz41IwZhwlt |
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