Letters to the Editor
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@maureen
Yes, I am talking about the undergraduate, and the graduate students. I am well aware that it's a town, and a large one, as well as a university, with a working population. I lived up the Cowley Road, among the working population, and they weren't the ones asking me the stupid questions. The students were. They couldn't understand why Mondale, not Kennedy, could have been nominated in 1984. OK, maybe Mondale wasn't the best choice against Reagan, but, as I said in my first post, I tried to explain the Chappaquidick factor, and the fact that while the population of MA might elect him as their Senator, it wasn't going to work for the rest of the country. I explained that yes, he had been an effective Senator for MA, but that didn't matter.
It wasn't one or two people asking. It was a constant topic of conversation and I wasn't the one bringing it up. They simply didn't understand American society or American politics, they just thought they did.