US Senate Elections

The Horrors Of Horrendous Voter Judgment That Takes Away Great US Senators! :(

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America elects its office holders by judgments of those who vote, but sadly in historical terms, many decent, outstanding political leaders are defeated by successors who turn out to be true disasters and makes it hard to understand the public mentality.

Just a few examples in the past two generations:

1980—Senator Frank Church of Idaho (D)
Senator George McGovern of South Dakota (D)
Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana (D)
Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin (D)
Senator Jacob Javits of New York (R)
1984—Senator Charles Percy of Illinois (R)
1988—Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut (R)
2004—Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota (D)
2010—Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin (D)
2012– Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana (R)
2018—Senator Bill Nelson of Florida (D)
Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri (D)
2020—Senator Doug Jones of Alabama (D)
2024—Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio (D)
Senator Jon Tester of Montana (D)

Notice some outstanding Republicans (Javits, Percy, Weicker, Lugar) are included, while the rest are Democrats!

Examples of some “new” Senators elected who have been seen as terrible alternatives:

Dan Quayle to replace Birch Bayh
Alfonse D’Amato to replace Jacob Javits
Ron Johnson to replace Russ Feingold
Rick Scott to replace Bill Nelson
Josh Hawley to replace Claire McCaskill
Tommy Tuberville to replace Doug Jones

And an example of an “open” Senate seat where the “better’ candidate lost, and America has to deal with the outcome—Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan losing to JD Vance in 2022, now the 50th Vice President of the United States, a hearbeat away from the Presidency, and causing great dismay in many respects!

Potential New Faces On The National Scene After The Midterm Elections Of 2018

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The upcoming midterm elections of 2018 may bring on the political scene some new Democrats who could become major players in the future of the party.

We have Democrats having a chance to become Governors of major states, and potentially playing a role in the 2020 Presidential election.

For instance, we have Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom of California as the odds on favorite to become the successor to Jerry Brown as Governor of the largest state, which means he will not be someone who can be ignored on the national scene.

We have former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, who is Jewish, and who seems to be the front runner for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Florida, and has a reasonable chance to become the leader of the third largest state.

We have Richard Cordray, the former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and former Ohio State Treasurer and Attorney General, as the Democratic nominee for Ohio Governor.

We also have J.B Pritzker, a venture capitalist and part of the family that owns the Hyatt Hotel chain, and happens to be Jewish, who is the Democratic nominee for Illinois Governor.

Finally, we have Stacey Abrams, the first African American woman nominated for Governor in American history, the Minority Leader of the Georgia State Assembly, nominated by the Democrats.

Also, for the US Senate, we have Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke of El Paso, who has served in the House of Representatives since 2013, challenging Senator Ted Cruz for his Senate seat, with Cruz being the most widely derided and hated member of the Senate, even by his own Republican colleagues.

A leading priority should be to retire Ted Cruz, who this blogger thought was actually more dangerous than Donald Trump, among 2016 Republican Presidential contenders, although more recent developments have shown even Cruz not willing to be as disgraceful as Donald Trump has become, although still a despicable human being!