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The polling in Georgia and the Fetterman debate debacle are what is driving the volume of trading and trending for those two races and "GOP win Senate" markets.
I still call that one (GA senate) a toss up because the betting can't decide, but in like 2-3 days, we'll get a better sense from the futures markets and odds makers.
In 2010, it was Christine O’Donnell, the Senate candidate from Delaware, who confirmed that she was not a witch and lost the election.
In 2012, it was Todd Akin, the Senate candidate from Missouri, who said some unusual things about abortion and lost the election.
In 2023, it’s Herschel Walker.
Why does the GOP keep nominating candidates with little if any experience or capabilities, and with screwy ideas or sayings, who lose elections that should be winnable?
GOP, a football player who paid women to have abortions is really the most qualified candidate?
Walker most likely will win so that's not a bad pick, far better than Fetterman or Biden who are "out to lunch."
In 2010, it was Christine O’Donnell, the Senate candidate from Delaware, who confirmed that she was not a witch and lost the election.
In 2012, it was Todd Akin, the Senate candidate from Missouri, who said some unusual things about abortion and lost the election.
In 2023, it’s Herschel Walker.
Why does the GOP keep nominating candidates with little if any experience or capabilities, and with screwy ideas or sayings, who lose elections that should be winnable?
GOP, a football player who paid women to have abortions is really the most qualified candidate?
Democrat voter here.
I have to point out something. The Founders never intended for there to be professional politicians. Their idea was for Joe the Farmer to run for office, serve out his term if he wins, then goes back to being a farmer.
In other words, regular folks are suppose to be running and natural selection should take over.
These GOP candidates you speak of have more in common with you and me than the professional politicians we keep voting into office.
Weird or not, we ought to let the democratic process decide if they will serve or not.
I have to point out something. The Founders never intended for there to be professional politicians. Their idea was for Joe the Farmer to run for office, serve out his term if he wins, then goes back to being a farmer.
In other words, regular folks are suppose to be running and natural selection should take over.
These GOP candidates you speak of have more in common with you and me than the professional politicians we keep voting into office.
Weird or not, we ought to let the democratic process decide if they will serve or not.
Agreed and great post, career politicians eventually don't have the peoples interests in mind, but the donors. There should be term limits on Congress (8 or 10 years) and Senate (12 years), but then again you're asking career politicians to put term limits on themselves which will never happen.
Once you have career politicians, you are creating the scenario for fraud and corruption.
I have to point out something. The Founders never intended for there to be professional politicians. Their idea was for Joe the Farmer to run for office, serve out his term if he wins, then goes back to being a farmer.
They not only didn't intend for it, they set it up to actively discourage it. When they picked DC in the days before central AC, Congress only met in the summer and in the godawful swamp that used to be DC (and still is in August).
Oh no, Jefferson and his crew back then wanted federal service to be something that was a legit chore that you did once to say you served the public and then ran away from back to your better, happier, more prosperous real life.
Two things changed since then:
the aforementioned invention of central air conditioning making DC way more pleasant in the summer
fixing the size of the US House in 1935, thus guaranteeing it would get less representational, more two party intransigent, and way more susceptible to lobbying as the population and economy grow.
The last hundred years has been rule changes aplenty to create, protect and enrich professional politicians as the new aristocracy. This is the system they created, not us. I dare anyone to find even half a dozen winning candidates for any House or Senate race in the last 100 years who ran a campaign with even a mention of increasing their own pay, their power, entrenching the two party system, protecting their own incumbency, etc. No no, none of us voted for any of that, because that's the shady crap both parties agree on 100% and do behind the scenes once we elect them for all the other stuff they lied about during their campaigns.
Both major parties don't need effective leaders, they need effective fundraisers. Actual governing ability is secondary.
I can also speak at least on my home region, wherein the local Republican party doesn't seem interested in winning bigger races. Controlling local elections and special districts gives direct control over patronage hiring, salary increases, work assignments, old school Tammany stuff. It's much more beneficial for the party as a machine to control things locally than to seek higher office without direct (or unchecked) control.
The local Democrats don't seem too interested in rocking the boat, either. They carved out enough for themselves and just keep riding it out.
poor quality???? Are you kidding? And you think Fetterman is a great choice???
Fetterman is a complete basket case for sure. That being said the GOP should have a candidate that completely owns his soul, yet they don't. But Fetterman is becoming the new but Trump.
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