Is anyone honestly surprised this ended with a whimper? Even i checked out on following the investigation months ago. Took too long and got boring. Either way, the American voter dosent care about scandals when the economy is good. See: Tea Pot dome, Iran Contra, Clinton's scandals, Jack Abramoff, etc...
Senator Conrad Burns agrees that Jack Abramoff had no impact on the MT Senate race when he soundly defeated Jon Tester in 2006,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-year_itch
Conrad Burns is still a Senator to this day
Yes....i hear him and newly elected Bob Hugin, who was soundly rejected by the voters of NJ due to Menedez's corruption, have become great friends in the Senate
Burns was mired in the Abramoff scandal and it was enough to cost him reelection, just like "Macaca" was enough to cost George Allen reelectionWhat factor do you think caused Allen to lose more? The fact his election happened during the 6 year itch with a deeply unpopular presidency with a state with fast changing demographics favorable to Democrats....or Maccaca?
For every reason you list for a specific candidate losing....there are completely opposite examples of where someone did or said the same and still won anyway. What you are falling for is what is known as the
narrative fallacy.
Atlas cant let go of this obsession with finding a simple easy to understand A to B to C causal explanation for election outcomes. Candidate said something dumb -> all voters are totally informed on the situation and simultaneously reacted and interpreted the comment the same way -> voters voted the politician out. Its not that simple. The explanation is always something boring such as the partisan tilt of the state, demographics, state of the economy, etc.... but people would much rather prefer the interesting narrative. This is understandable of course as
human brains have literally evolved to seek out and create narratives to explain things.
Bob Hugin was a Trump hugger and got hammered for his pharmaceutical ties
Corey Booker is literally pharmas biggest whore in the Senate lol
