State GOP Adopts New Platform

We'll begin today with the future of the Massachusetts Republican party in this deep blue state. For many years the state GOP shied away from polarizing social issues that have come to dominate the Grand Old Party in other parts of the country. But last night, the Republican State Committee overwhelmingly backed a new party platform that ventures into that very territory, particularly on abortion and gay marriage.

David Scharfenberg, WBUR political reporter.

Amy Carnevale, chair of the Mass. GOP's platform committee.

Boston Globe "After a spirited debate in which some members disputed whether social issues should be included in the party’s guiding principles at all, the activists backed the new platform by a 52-to-16 vote. With the vote, the activists aimed straight at some of the social issues that the Republican Party has long intentionally shied away from in Massachusetts, where liberal and libertarian views dominate public discourse."