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In reply to the discussion: Voting against the Brady Bill versus voting for the Iraq War Resolution? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)One candidate is from a gun state. The people who vote for him like guns.
The other candidate is from the state that got hit with the worst loss of human life in a terror attack ever in the US. A massive number of the people who voted for this candidate personally knew someone who died in the attack, and the effects of the loss of life, and commerce, resonated across the state for YEARS after the event.
Both votes were in reaction to these rather specific constituencies.
Sounds to me like we've got two legislators who respond to the desires of their constituents. In short, they dance with the ones what brung them.
Of course, this is DU, so let's toss some mindless SHIT about that, instead!!!! Let's make it all PERSONAL....and NEFARIOUS....and while we're at it, let's call each other NAMES!!!!!
Because that's what makes for good political discussion, ya?