# Hey Mitt!  If you hated MA so much, why'd you run for office there?

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**Created:** [March 3, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mitt-if-you-hated-ma-so-much-whyd-you-run-for-office-there/394418 "2007-03-03T11:54:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mitt-if-you-hated-ma-so-much-whyd-you-run-for-office-there/394418/21 "2007-03-03T23:10:44Z")

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Sheesh, did everyone take **december/John Mace** pills here?

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mitt-if-you-hated-ma-so-much-whyd-you-run-for-office-there/394418/22 "2007-03-04T00:38:42Z")

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[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy]  
It’s very, very wrong of me, no doubt, but I get a delightful tingle of schadenfreude every time the Mittster, desperately sucking up to the worst fanatics of the Religious Right, gets dismissed by them because he’s _gasp_ a heathen Mormon.  
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[No joy for you tonight, then](http://www.onelocalnews.com/whiterockreviewer/ViewArticle.aspx?id=4267&source=2):

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> Mitt Romney won the most support for the Republican presidential nomination in a straw poll of GOP activists attending an annual conference.
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> Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor whose moderate stances on social issues irks the party‘s right wing, was second with 17 percent.
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> Sen. John McC, , ), R-Ariz., who rounds out the top tier of serious GOP contenders, skipped the event — and was punished for it. He got only 12 percent of the vote.

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mitt-if-you-hated-ma-so-much-whyd-you-run-for-office-there/394418/23 "2007-03-04T07:54:34Z")

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I would be amused to see the GOP nominate Romney. “Look, we’re diverse! This time, the white male candidate who sucks up to the religious right is a Mormon!!! From New Eng–I mean, the Midwest! Don’t vote for that woman/black/latino, they probably have cooties!”

Meanwhile, the swing voters wonder why they didn’t nominate McCain this time, either.

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**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-mitt-if-you-hated-ma-so-much-whyd-you-run-for-office-there/394418/24 "2007-03-04T08:20:00Z")

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Willard? Like the guy with the rat? Hmmmm… gotta remember that. It might come in handy, campaign-wise. 😃

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