The Boston Globe of December 16 has this editorial, telling the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in next month’s special election that she is wrong to refuse to debate, unless all three ballot-qualified candidates are invited.
The person who wrote this editorial probably doesn’t know that in Minnesota in 1998, every gubernatorial debate included Jesse Ventura, and there were dozens of such debates, all year long, in the primary season as well as the general election season. The Boston Globe says the independent, Joseph L. Kennedy, is “little-known”. Obviously, if he were included in all the debates, that problem would be overcome.
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“microcosm of the political environment awaiting the next US senator – an intensely partisan climate ” Doesn’t Lieberman and the current healthcare bill show that a new senator needs to know how to deal with Independents or with senators who break party ranks?
Based on recent statistics of Massachusetts state house races, maybe more than one candidate is too much for Mass. voters to handle…. 🙁
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