You will never get a majority of voters in a statewide race to vote for someone they feel is too stupid to hold office.
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LOL, really? Care to explain how Maxine Waters gets elected and re elected?
Did you miss the part about "statewide" office?
Maxine Waters is like Ron Paul, a Congress member in a safe district, neither one can be elected on a state level.
Maxine Waters represents a ghetto district in South Central L.A. Akin is running for a Senate seat that reps the ENTIRE state of Missouri. It's a faulty comparison.
Maxine Waters represents a single district in CA. The point was about “a statewide race”.
A better example for your viewpoint would be Barbara Boxer. However, there are various definitions of “too stupid to hold office”. She has managed to survive and thrive despite the fact that those like us think she’s dumber than a box of rocks. Clearly she knows how to play the game and work the system, in the state of CA.
I would say that in this situation, with Akin running in an extremely high profile race to take over a Senate seat from the incumbent, he has shown himself to be a very poor communicator and to have very poor judgement about what to say and when to say it.
Some will call that stupid. Others will use different words to describe it.
No matter to me, what it’s called.
I was shocked beyond words when I heard this from Akin. What in the world could he have been thinking, to casually toss off a sentence like that in a public interview? Something is very wrong there. And I say he could do it again at any time, if he could be so clueless that he has caused all of this.
The seat was his.
Now????????????????????????????????????????
I would also like to say, Missourians have more pride than Californians as to who they perceive is worthy to represent them. Claire is a lib, but she’s not so challenged as to pull an Akin. She’s very clever. Yes, people see through her hypocrisy and know she’s an Obama toadie while pretending she’s the voice of the people back home, but she does seem to have her act together otherwise. With Akin, after this, nobody knows what to expect. It’s scary.
Maxine Waters does not hold a STATEWIDE office. I put that word in intentionally.
You can get away with all kinds of strange things at the congressional level, because the way many districts are drawn make them overwhelmingly liberal/Democrat or conservative/GOP. Waters (and Hank Johnson) both represent districts that are so predominantly liberal/Democrat that being “too stupid to hold office” could not swing enough votes to allow a non-Democrat could ever be elected.
A statewide race (like a US senate seat) is a different story. The voters for that office are too evenly split. Aiken was winning—bit time—in prior to his gaffe. He is now at 38% voter support. Those voters didn’t abandon Aiken because they suddenly decided they liked the Democrat better. They abandoned Aiken because they decided Aiken was too stupid to hold office.
I don’t see any scenario—none-where Aiken can get enough of those voters back to get to 50% + 1.