Check out the favorable ratings on the ten senators above according to Morning Consult’s Midterm Wave Watcher.
Congratulations to Jon Tester whose 51% approval rating tops the charts.
Democrat Claire McCaskill and Republican Dean Heller are the least-approved candidates at a mere 38% each.
Curiously, despite 9 unhappy ratings, voters only want change in 3 elections, and even then, only by small margins.
This seemingly unlikely state of affairs is no doubt due to the fact that while no one likes any of the candidates other than Tester, they like their opponents even less.
Summation
We prefer the clown we’ve got to the other clown.
Lovely.
The three exceptions are Democrat Bill Nelson (FL), Democrat Claire McCaskill (MO), and Republican Dean Heller (NV).
Voters are so dissatisfied with that trio they actually want change.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
No-one votes for change because the alternatives aren’t really that different they’re just variations on the same establishment theme. No-one on the global political stage is offering solutions that amount to anything, politicians are all still tightly bound to modern democratic and Keynesian thinking.
When there is finally an opportunity to vote for real reform or perhaps a whole new form of democracy (one that is audited by the people and not the oligarchy) the results will certainly be different.
This is nothing new. People view elected officials like they view their job. Are most people happy with their job? No. Are they willing to quit and find a new job? No.
All of this highlights that people are more concerned with the instantaneous direction of their lives than anything else.
The paradox of being dissatisfied yet not wanting change can be explained by pointing out the political middle has disappeared. Voters would rather make a small shift in the political spectrum than a huge leap.
A lot of close races will probably be decided by last minute events unrelated to candidate likeability then? Any speculation on the role of wedge issues, October surprises, Mueller investigation, Rally-Around-the-Flag events, and $$$$$?
Election 2018 decided on
point 3 may be nothing or everything
A century and a half of widespread, publicly funded indoctrination; has succeeded in convincing the drones, that imaginary hobgoblins are scarier than real thieves; it would seem.
That picture of Bill Nelson must be at least TWENTY years old.
He has been in Congress (first in the House, then Senate) since 1978.
And I can tell you for a fact that In person, he looks like something that has just climbed out of a sarcophagus in “Tales From the Crypt”.
Fortunately for him, his opponent will be Gov. Rick Scott, who has less charisma than a bag full of rocks.