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CTyankee

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22. I think the acid test will be how well it plays in primaries in such places as Iowa.

Sun Dec 29, 2013, 09:50 AM

Dec 2013

How much disdain do these voters have for the Northeast? They may think that the snooty East Coast folks "deserve" their traffic jams and delight in something that messes up New York City. Even my liberal friends in my husband's home state of Wisconsin have some dim views of Manhattan and resorts such as Martha's Vineyard. I hear it all the time since I live close to and visit those places but I also visit Wisconsin. It's not severe and godawful. My WI friends are all liberal Dems. Nevertheless, there are traces of it (e.g. calling NYC "the rotten apple&quot that take me aback. So I can imagine it is even worse with the Republicans out in the midwest.

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I think the acid test will be how well it plays in primaries in such places as Iowa. CTyankee Dec 2013 #22

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Now, bullying people is a different story. Particularly when it is a large man with a really mean CTyankee Dec 2013 #26

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