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Originally Posted by driveway
Yeah, but there is a difference between expressing one's displeasure and actually acting on it. It's easy to tell a pollster you hate what's happening in Washington, it's harder to go into the voting booth and vote against the gerrymandered incumbent for the only other option, whom you happen to have one or two major differences with, which you consider to be moral absolutes.
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The problem is that while people are dissatisfied with the government as a whole, they generally like the individual who represents them locally. People think the problems are caused by the idiots that someone else elected.