Dead man running
Merkan politics keep getting dragged up too often on even the little social media that I involve myself in: YouTube. It's just asinine and tedious. So I tend to avoid anything on the subject, unless it's particularly amusing.
Given that, I simply cannot recall why I even started an article about the Pennsylvania Senate race between two nonentities. I didn't read the whole thing, for I have no shits to give, but on skipping to the end I did learn that while candidate health might be a factor in the debate, it really means nothing in partisan politics: when a Senate majority is at stake…few, if any, minds are changed
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In 2000, Democrat Mel Carnahan defeated incumbent Republican John Ashcroft in a Missouri Senate race, resulting in a 50-50 split between the two parties in the chamber. Carnahan had died in an plane crash the month before.
Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent, BBC News
So…Ashcroft was ousted by a dead man. Talk about a vote of no confidence! (LOL)