11-01-2016, 12:19 PM
(11-01-2016, 11:47 AM)Benton Wrote: McMullin would have been a good GOP candidate. He's the kind of guy that gets support at the local/state level: conservative, not a conventional politician, young white male, pretty average background.
Why the party powers that be go away from that model that's won them a good number of seats in Congress, governor mansions and state senates, in favor of older, out of touch, rich guys is beyond me.
It wasn't the party powers, though. The electorate nominated Trump.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
