Two years after the Tea Party surge helped double Republicans’ numbers in the state House of Representatives, Democrats are trying to beat back legislative gains by conservatives while outnumbered Republicans are trying to capitalize on pockets of conservatism in a deep blue state.
Some of the hottest races to watch this season are rematches between candidates who faced tense showdowns in 2010. In the state Senate, President Therese Murray, a Plymouth Democrat, faces a second duel with Thomas F. Keyes, a Sandwich Republican who nearly displaced her by claiming 48 percent of the vote in 2010.
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So many of the problems in this state stem from one-party rule that I'd think most of those so-called unenrolled voters might want some balance in government. But the truth is that so many people in the state benefit, in one way or another, from the Democrat corruption machine that elections don't really matter any more.
Probably the most pressing issue facing Massachusetts and the rest of the US is the stagnant state of the US economy, and what either candidate can offer to help all of us in Massachusetts is of the most importance right now. One of Massachusetts biggest economic sectors - the Financial Services Industry is being decimated by firms like State Street Corp (STT) that under the direction of its current CEO Jay Hooley, is engaged in a Joint Venture or JV with a firm owned by INDIAN nationals called SYNTEL corp (SYNT) of TROY MI that has already sent over 3,200 good paying middle class US Job, most from Massachusetts, to INDIA, this only three years after State Street Corp received a $2 Billion US TARP bailout from the very people that this firm and its current BOARD of DIRECTORS are hurting the most. This is a NATIONAL DISGRACE and if either Senator Scott Brown, or Elizabeth Warren can help put an end to this "Betting Against America" I will vote for that person....