On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 00:14:59 +0000 (UTC) "Steven L. Robinson"
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> Must not forget California. For decades it elected relatively liberal
> Republicans like Hiram Johnson, Earl Warren and Tom Kuchel. Most of
> the liberal Republicans disappeared from this state, at least, in
> the early 1980s. SR
The same was also true in my own state, Massachusetts. Probably, the most progressive governor we had in Massachusetts during my lifetime was Frank Sargent who was a Republican. On a number of issues he was more progressive than his Democratic successor, Mike Dukakis.
Jim Farmelant
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> On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:03:49 -0600 Carrol Cox writes:
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> The GOP was the long time political home of
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> Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr.,
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> who was for his day certainly considered to be
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> quite a progressive. In 1924 he ran for president
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> In places like Wisconsin and Minnesota the GOP
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