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> she dropped out of the primary when her impending loss became obvious

That is how voting and elections is supposed to work, not by saying people of a certain age, color, race or creed can't hold office because young people today are bigoted and feel they deserve more than all generations that ever preceded them throughout all of history.

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I'd say party leadership endorsing a 78 year old candidate for US Senate is not how voting and elections ought to work - I'd say it's a pretty big problem. You're welcome to agree or disagree with that, but more relevant to the context of this comment thread, it is not a problem that would be solved by congressional term limits.

> young people today are bigoted and feel they deserve more than all generations that ever preceded them throughout all of history.

Each generation doing materially better than the previous one used to be a widely agreed upon goal in the United States. Perhaps not really relevant to this comment thread.

She was the logical choice and a good candidate. Government is not a job anyone can step into and be sucessful. Look at the difference in effectiveness of career politicians vs populists outsiders. Its like 100s of meaningful bills passed compared to single digit.

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