Posted on 06/09/2010 10:58:33 AM PDT by Fred
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Voters say they're frustrated at the way politics works in this country, but incumbency and money still rule when it comes to elections.
For every insurgent like Rand Paul who defeats an establishment candidate, many others fail.
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Its still true.
In New Jersey RINOs like Rodney Frelinghuysen and Leonard Lance were renominated with comfortable majorities.
Even people who voted for them disagree with them on policies.
How many of us have heard someone say” I voted for the person who’s name I recognised.”???
That is most often the incumbent, because that person appears on the TV, Radio, of in the local newspaper most often while they are already in office.
I have challenged many a person about voting ‘just for the name’, but I basically get nowhere.
They are too lazy to do even the most basis research.
Tell it to this guy:
“An unemployed military veteran who raised no funds and put up no campaign website shocked South Carolina’s Democratic Party leadership by capturing the nomination Tuesday to face Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint in November.”
Was his name something like Bob Hope, Ted Kennedy or something? Sometimes people with a famous person’s name, try it just to see if it will fly.
Please, you cannot be serious.
Not serious about what? I’m simply pointing out that the money and connections are not always an advantage. Ask those in Arkansas who donated so much to the loser.
Tell that to South Carolina!
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