You’re right. There was a time in this country when congressmen and senators spent little time in Washington. Most of their time was spent with constituents back home, where they owned estates.
I think we’re going to end up with a hapless candidate in Virginia who can’t raise money.
A good example of this would be Kurt Bills in Minnesota in 2012. This guy was a f&cking awful candidate. He couldn’t campaign at all, he relied on money from Ronulan donators.
Al Franken is now up for reelection in MN, and it looks like once again, we’ll be running a nobody.
Bills did historically bad for a MN Republican. Paultards are almost always horrible candidates.
Jim Abeler is other one, hopefully he loses the primary. But the other candidates are lower tier as well. Major recruitment failure in MN.
Good point about Virginia, BB. Newtie ain’t close to the only guy who lived their full time and then stayed there after leaving office. I think Larry Pressler once considered a Senate run from VA.