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Originally Posted by timun
Mull, I don't get how you don't get what I'm saying. I don't understand why you're even asking your original question in the first place, other than playing dumb (and/or coy, for some reason).
I understand how Democrat congressmen can use their vote for speaker of the house to push for change in their party from within. That said, I also think so lowly of the average congressman—no matter what colour their party uses on TV—that it wouldn't surprise me if those two congressmen who voted for someone else and the three who voted "present" weren't abstaining from voting for Pelosi but were in fact so inept that they didn't even realize who or what they were voting for in the first place.
TL;DR: I think politicians are dumb. Simple enough explanation for you?
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It's one thing to suggest that when they're voting for policy. Representative Numbnuts didn't bother to read what they're voting for, votes in a way that is not aligned with their own positions, etc.
To conflate that apathy with a vote for the Speaker, I don't think that has a whole lot of backing in reality. This is like saying if you got a chance to vote for the next director of your department at work you would close your eyes and just pick the one with the smartest sounding name because you can't be arsed to consider the differences between your options. These people work with each other on a daily basis, I think they're paying it much closer attention than you think.