How Supportive Is Your Candidate?

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Once again our elected elite here in the US has proven to us that they are a bunch of self-serving jerks with inflated egos. Arlen Specter (now democrat) decided to switch parties, and his reasoning for doing so? Well, his state has swung Democrat, and to quote him, "I am unwilling to have my 29-year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania

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I don't think my constituency and the people I was supposed to be serving should judge me fit for office.

I wasn't aware that a senator only represents the people in his/her district that belong to the same party s/he does. Good to know.

I'm quite pleased with my local politicians. I live in Minneapolis, and Republicans don't really stand a chance here (the 3rd party candidate got more votes for our US House seat). All the people I vote for are politically pro-choice (meaning they feel the need to bemoan how terrible it is while still supporting the legal right to have an abortion). On the one hand, coming out and saying ABORTIONS FOR ALL YAY! would be political suicide in national elections, but it would be nice if someone had the political spine to say "I support legal abortions" and leave it at that.

In the current political environment, where one cannot actually say what they mean and stay electable, I judge them based on their actions. If you help block anti-abortion legislation, awesome. If you help create pro-choice legislation, even better. How a person votes wrt a woman's legal right to an abortion says a lot about them. I judge potential political representatives by that standard first.