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Blue on Blue

The Republican captured the statehouses in Maryland and Massachusetts last night.  This is good and bad.  It is of course good for the Republicans, for obvious reasons.  It is not good for the Republicans, as well.  Even these, the bluest of the blue states can say enough is enough.  We are being taxed to the max, but things are not getting better.  Time for a switch. 

Okay, the switch is in.  But the problems in these two states are serious and not surmountable in the short four year gubernatorial term.  Repairing the problems could take a generation, not just a term.  So, the Democrats will be undiminished, already fueling their next campaigns with slogans such as "We gave them a chance, and see there is no real change."  Blue states such as these will heed the lesson, and revert to their natural rather blue roots.

The Republicans probably think they can affect the culture of their states with well intended and maybe stringent programs about fiscal responsibility, not realizing the future disaster ahead.  The Democrats will suggest their (Democratic) programs and ideas are the proper course.  They will prevail, as the culture of the traditional mandates.   And so it goes... 

If Republicans can understand all this, as perhaps Scott Walker in Wisconsin does, they will understand the first necessity is to change the culture in advance of a change in programs. Such thinking is really not within their domain, much less strategic thinking.
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