[scrabblehack]

Hmm....I find it difficult to believe that there are no Republican challengers with a STEM background. As I recall, about 1600 candidates file FEC paperwork for 435 seats. Quite a few more don't raise enough money to file with the FEC.

Only 50 out of 1200 candidates (1600 minus incumbents) had a STEM background? And all of them were Democrats? Or is it that Science couldn't find any Republican challengers with a STEM background?? I think they call this "selection bias."

[rightwingcrazy]

I think conservatives with STEM backgrounds, as a rule, are too successful in their field to be drawn to politics.

[2banana]

Lawyers should be banned from office.

[Wm F Buckley Republican]

No, to any Democrat scientist because they’re so darned dumb they can’t tell boys from girls.

[rllngrk33]

The problem isn’t that they have STEM backgrounds, it’s that they are liberals/socialists/democrats.

[thoughtomator]

The qualities that make for good STEM candidates make for poor politicians and vice versa.

In STEM, true and false does actually matter. Not so much in politics as long as the government still has access to money.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Jimmy Carter was a STEM Democrat. How did that work out?

[KC_Conspirator]

Not a whole lot of STEM people in elected office. Usually successful on their own...until congress sends their jobs down the Ganges.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

All Democrats? Fake scientists?

[higgmeister]

I looked deeper through the links in the article and of the twenty candidates they listed, several are Republican.

I remember a few years ago there were a large number of Republican physicians and dentists in office such as my former Congressman Tom Price, Georgia 6th.

Meet the 15 physician members of the 115th US Congress