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To: one_less who wrote (4370)	11/8/2006 3:45:31 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10087

New politicians can be just as beholden to special interests as old ones. In fact an entrenched politician, while in some ways a bad thing, might have the power to ignore special interests better. In practice I think "old" politicians (ones on the job a long time, not necessarily very elderly) are more likely to be cushy with special interests, but it doesn't always work out that way. Infact the newly elected are almost always 'good ones'. Really? I can't agree with that. Perhaps "more likely to be "good", but no way that they are almost always "good ones".

To: one_less who wrote (4370)	11/8/2006 4:30:24 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10087

Fame game The saddest commentary on this election is how uncompetitive many of the races were. I'm not just talking about things like that Berkely district where the Republican got 6% of the vote. I'm talking about New York, where until I actually looked at their names on the ballot, I couldn't remember who was running against Hilary Clinton and Eliot Spitzer. And the reason that I couldn't remember the name of Hilary's opponent is that I had never heard it. I felt bad about myself, momentarily, for being uninformed. Then I remembered what a colossal waste of time it would have been to memorize the name and campaign platform of a man doomed to obscurity and failure before he ever got the nomination. It is kinder, really, to forget any of this ever happened. And how better to forget than never to have remembered in the first place? It does remind you, though, how much fame matters in our elections. Even before Jeanine Pirro's ethics problems surfaced, she had a herculean task running against Andrew Cuomo, whose father everyone remembers as governor. I often wonder how much those millionaire candidates actually get out of their spending--as opposed to the media coverage that puts their name in every household... janegalt.net