01-18-2010, 05:09 PM
Go tell the people of Massachusetts. Perhaps they're turned off by the Democratic party's failure to actually RUN for the seat.
It's kind of a surprise, but then again they kept re-electing Ted because he was ... Ted Kennedy. Let's face it. The great American Voter will vote for their 'favorite son', in most cases, unless there's a 'dead girl or a live boy'. In Teddy's case there WAS a 'dead girl', but they still re-elected him.
If his widow had run she might have gotten a better result (think Sonny Bono's replacement), and ridden in on the coat-tails. But the Democratic party picked a party apparatchick and blew it. Badly.
We'll see what happens in the polls, but it's another lesson in 'Never Assume you have the support of the people unless you have no opponents whatsoever'.
It's kind of a surprise, but then again they kept re-electing Ted because he was ... Ted Kennedy. Let's face it. The great American Voter will vote for their 'favorite son', in most cases, unless there's a 'dead girl or a live boy'. In Teddy's case there WAS a 'dead girl', but they still re-elected him.
If his widow had run she might have gotten a better result (think Sonny Bono's replacement), and ridden in on the coat-tails. But the Democratic party picked a party apparatchick and blew it. Badly.
We'll see what happens in the polls, but it's another lesson in 'Never Assume you have the support of the people unless you have no opponents whatsoever'.