2010-Year of the missing candidate

[babylonsister]

2010-Year of the missing candidate

By JONATHAN MARTIN | 10/5/10 4:34 AM EDT


With a month left until the midterm elections, there is something noticeably absent from some key statewide races: the candidates.

They’re ducking public events, refusing to publicize the ones they do hold and skipping debates and national TV interviews altogether – out of fear of a gotcha moment that will come back to haunt them.

It’s mostly, but not entirely, a Republican phenomenon. In some cases, a tea-party-oriented candidate has made a plain calculation that a one-day, process story about an absence from the campaign trail or a refusal to debate is less damaging than the captured-on-tape gaffe the candidate could make when facing reporters.

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[Javaman]

1. public appearances make them accountable.

their words go on record.

and since their current spew is so fucking insane, the last thing they want to do is: explain the unexplainable.

[babylonsister]

2. Makes me wonder how anyone can vote for them if they don't

see/here them in action. I guess for that 30% it just doesn't matter as long as there is an 'r' after their name.