When This Election Is Over

[Ronnie]

Pay my taxes, and live life without the Atlas forum for a couple years.

[Stranger in a strange land]

talk over things like the election results among Korean Americans with higher than university education in Orange county, the turnout rates among Native Americans in South Dakota, and trends among Industrial Workers in the midewest, and speculate why they voted the way they did.

Also, we'll pick apart the counties where Barr and Nader perform unusually well.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I won't even think about taking a break until after the first 100 days of the new administration, which won't be until around the first of May, give or take a week.  I did take a break for most of 2005 and early 2006, but I've been here strong since early-mid 2006.  I don't post as frequent as my time would indicate, but I've really been here since early 2004.  I re-registered as BushOklahoma because I, too, lost my password.  My original username was BushAlva for those of you veterans.

I doubt I'll take a big break, though, as I will immediately shift my focus to 2010 and 2012 and start peeking ahead to the 2014 mid-terms.

[Politico]

We'll see a special election to replace Kennedy, not Kerry. Kerry would be crazy to leave his seat for any slot in the Obama Administration short of an unexpected vacancy at VP. I hope the best for Kennedy, but I doubt he defeats brain cancer.

The people who stick around in the Senate seem to do so because they like bringing pork home and building up empires, not because they are into making policy. Kerry is not the Robert Byrd type. I think he'd jump at the chance to leave Massachusetts politics, which he is not part of anyway, to join a national administration.

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Massachusetts has plenty of officials elected from within the state who want to move up to the Senate to allow Patrick to sneak across the border and into the seat.

Marty Meehan isn't sitting on his millions from his House campaign chest for nothing.

Yeah, but Patrick Kennedy becomes the de facto leader of the Kennedy Family after Ted passes on. Hard to see him losing to anybody, even Meehan. Meehan's best hope is for Kerry to vacate his seat, which Meehan would easily scoop up. No way anybody other than a Kennedy takes over John & Ted's seat, though.

[tik 🪀✨]

The day after the election I'm moving to the other side of the world which should keep me well occupied for the foreseeable future. Of course, I'll still come here randomly to make easily ignorable sarcastic jabs at you all.

[Brittain33]

Yeah, but Patrick Kennedy becomes the de facto leader of the Kennedy Family after Ted passes on. Hard to see him losing to anybody, even Meehan. Meehan's best hope is for Kerry to vacate his seat, which Meehan would easily scoop up. No way anybody other than a Kennedy takes over John & Ted's seat, though.

I'm sorry, but it's just not possible that Massachusetts politicians are going to clear the field for a Representative from Rhode Island, Kennedy or not. Kennedy had the option to run for Senate in the past and has passed it up. The Kennedy clan has been making plays at other states up and down the northeast. There's no reason Patrick wouldn't commit to his own state for the future, or better yet, try to amass power in the House.

A lot has happened in the years since Joe Kennedy III could keep the entire Democratic establishment on tenterhooks, waiting to hear if he'll run for governor or not.