Reply #6: I think it's worse than we think. [View All]

[Dr.Phool]

I talked to a guy yesterday, who is a candidate for congress every two years. Every two years, he collects the needed 6,000 or so petitions he needs to get on the ballot as a Democrat. I met him a few years ago when we both spent months outside a DMV office getting signatures. I was working for his primary opponent.

Back then, one thing we never had a problem with, was we could always get a lot of Republicans and Independents to fill out a petition, just out of a sense of fairness, even though they were planning on voting for the Republican in the election.

Monday was the deadline for gathering and turning in petitions. He didn't make it this year. He said that as soon as he told them he was a Democrat, they'd walk away. In the past, they would have signed.

I'm afraid this is a bad omen.