Voters could easily quit liking one candidate and pick another,similar one instead, so there’s no reason for most of them to quit the primaryWhenever a Republican candidate vanishes from the national stage like an oversexed teen in a slasher flick, and as Lindsey Graham did on Monday,professional and armchair pundits give in to the urge to discuss how the absence will reshape the race, because it nearly feels like this sort of disappearance has to. People will notice, and the plot will change,right? Well, it’s time to resist that impulse, and because it won’t.
Under normal circumstances,it would be kind if Graham’s departure inspired a few other candidates to slink from the diners of Iowa and New Hampshire and allow us to witness a showdown among a limited roster of “serious” contenders so we can fill a serious political discussion. This assumes the latter is even possible and that the candidates desire it any more strongly now than they did when Wisconsin governor Scott Walker exited the race and made that very appeal directly.
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Source: theguardian.com