07-24-2016, 12:18 PM
(07-24-2016, 11:28 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(07-23-2016, 07:42 AM)The Wonkette Wrote: I pointed out in another thread that Elizabeth Warren and Corey Booker were out because as sitting senators, they would have to resign and then have their replacements appointed by the sitting Governor, who happens to be Republican. Thus, the Senate would have a Democratic Senator replaced by a Republican. Since the Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, is a Democrat, the Senator replacing Kaine, should Clinton win, would be another Democrat, perhaps my Congressman Don Beyer.
Warren would have been replaced in a special election, but that would have taken a few months, and MA voters can't be counted on to stay blue.
Alas, when any party has been in power long enough it can get even more corrupt than usual. In Massachusetts, sometimes the Democrat is too entitled or too much part of The Machine. It is sometimes seems wise to vote for the better candidate rather than the party which generally claims the platform one prefers.
The Republicans, however, don't generally last long.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.