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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by didgeoridoo on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:39PM (#23838945)
Harvard and MIT don’t come to mind? (Mass. Gov Charlie Baker is a Republican)
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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by tropdrop on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:38PM (#23839896)
I think those count as "blue states with moderate Republican governors," in quadrifoliate's mind. Very recently, Illinois the state trumped Chicago the city and successfully elected Bruce Rauner (Republican businessman) as governor in 2015. The result was the Illinois Budget Impasse. [1] Rauner was swiftly succeeded by a blue Governor in the next election.

I think the above poster's point is states like Massachusetts (Deval Patrick->Charlie Baker) or Illinois tend to zigzag between blue governors and red governors, which shows they aren't "Republican controlled" like truly red states.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Budget_Impasse

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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by quadrifoliate on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:17PM (#23840838)
> I think those count as "blue states with moderate Republican governors," in quadrifoliate's mind.

Yeah, that's dead on, clearly I have a lot to learn about US politics :) I didn't even think of checking, how does Massachusetts elect a Republican Governor?

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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by panzagl on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:42PM (#23841053)
Because there's more to the state than Boston.
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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by ojbyrne on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:47PM (#23839032)
And Johns Hopkins (MD) makes 3 out of 10.
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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by ericd on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:40PM (#23840617)
MD is pretty blue, but the governorship flips back and forth. Similar to MA.
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