The House? In Indiana? We don't have a Democratic Party in Indiana.
Recall the 2016 House election featured this guy as the Democratic candidate. Just look at the vote totals for both parties. (BTW, I did vote for Tommy, drunkard that he is).
Most Hoosiers get their news from Fox and Rush Limbaugh and they like it that way. They've never been anywhere (it was up in 2016 to just shy of 3.4% of us having passports, but in the three previous years only 2.8%, 2.6% and 2.5% had passports). The majority of them are among the most racist, xenophobic, ignorant (but I repeat myself) entities you'll ever encounter. They don't want to hear anything anyone else has to say and believe this is the best place in the world to live and don't you dare try telling them otherwise.
I routinely leave 70% of my ballot blank and it's not because no one is Left enough to suit my tastes (one advantage of flight training is that situational awareness is emphasized - so I'm not looking for any Lefty to ever appear on an Indiana ballot), but because in roughly 70% of cases the Republican candidate is running unopposed.
Intellectually, politically, culturally and philosophically this is a hellish, hellish place. There is nothing, I mean absolutely nothing, that this state has to offer that could possibly lure any significant number of sentient beings here. That's why our universities routinely see 60% of their graduates leaving the state never to return within a year of graduation. I began saying this around 1990, but there are only three types of people who live in Indiana:
1. People who were born here.
2. People who are married to people who were born here.
3. The completely incompetent.
There are probably a dozen or so outliers in our population of 6.6 million who do not fall into one of those three categories, but I've only met one in the thirty-one years I've lived here. And he's originally from England, so he hardly counts. ;0)
That, in a nutshell, is why "no Lefties" run for office here. We have met the people. We know who they are. We know they cannot be saved.
Most Hoosiers get their news from Fox and Rush Limbaugh and they like it that way. They've never been anywhere (it was up in 2016 to just shy of 3.4% of us having passports, but in the three previous years only 2.8%, 2.6% and 2.5% had passports). The majority of them are among the most racist, xenophobic, ignorant (but I repeat myself) entities you'll ever encounter. They don't want to hear anything anyone else has to say and believe this is the best place in the world to live and don't you dare try telling them otherwise.
I routinely leave 70% of my ballot blank and it's not because no one is Left enough to suit my tastes (one advantage of flight training is that situational awareness is emphasized - so I'm not looking for any Lefty to ever appear on an Indiana ballot), but because in roughly 70% of cases the Republican candidate is running unopposed.
Intellectually, politically, culturally and philosophically this is a hellish, hellish place. There is nothing, I mean absolutely nothing, that this state has to offer that could possibly lure any significant number of sentient beings here. That's why our universities routinely see 60% of their graduates leaving the state never to return within a year of graduation. I began saying this around 1990, but there are only three types of people who live in Indiana:
1. People who were born here.
2. People who are married to people who were born here.
3. The completely incompetent.
There are probably a dozen or so outliers in our population of 6.6 million who do not fall into one of those three categories, but I've only met one in the thirty-one years I've lived here. And he's originally from England, so he hardly counts. ;0)
That, in a nutshell, is why "no Lefties" run for office here. We have met the people. We know who they are. We know they cannot be saved.