Outsiders

Over the past several decades voters have expressed their displeasure with Washington culminating in the last few polls showing congressional approval in single digits. Even individual members are only rated at 25% by their constituents. Most experts agree that there is an anti-Washington feeling spreading throughout the country. When congress is graded at less than 10% approval it must be across party lines and therein lies a dilemma. If democrats are unhappy with Washington why are they promoting Mrs. Clinton? She has spent the last 25 years in powerful positions in the Capital, including 8 years as first lady, 6 years as a senator and 4 years as Secretary of State. This tells me that party loyalty is stronger than dissatisfaction with Washington. It tells me that desire for change in Washington is exaggerated by news reporting. It tells me that people are not concerned with Clinton’s ties to Wall Street. It tells me that the public concern about her honesty is not a big deal. I have heard over and over that the reason for the rise of people like Trump and Carson is because people are fed up with Washington but that must not be the case if Clinton is going to be the nominee. The idea that this is the year of the out-sider is suspect since Clinton is anything but an outsider. The only way for this to make sense is if the out-siders drop out of contention and the republicans nominate a career politician to compete against Clinton but who says the voters have to make sense.