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I don't know, Jerry. While that sounds perfectly rational, and inline with reality, I'm thinking that's a bit too liberal for this forum. Also, there HAS to be more to it than that, right? It can't be that simple, can it?




No, it is NOT that simple, but what I said does have something to do with it.

Things are set up so that a person must have a certain amount of education to enter politics. Many politicians start off as lawyers and then run for Mayor, Governer, etc.
This is their springboard into politics.

It takes a LOT of money to go to college, and then law school...and an ENORMOUS amount of money to run for office : ie, Ads, campaign sloguns, tv space, billboards, signs, etc.



This is exactly what I thought when I stumbled onto this thread. Yes, there are certain rules that must be met in order to even run for certain offices, but more significantly, at the end of the day, running for office is an insanely expensive venture. Every candidate, regardless of the party, has to have a "war chest" with millions in order to get their name out there.

But as G-man points out - there have been presidents who were born/raised middle class and later became wealthy enough to run for office. But someone who is currently middle class becoming the prez? It's a financially improbable, if not completely impossible.



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Poor or middle class folks just don't have the capital for such a venture. It's a damn shame, too, because there are probably many poor - working class people who would make fine presidents. I would love to see a poor or middke class black man become president...NOT just to have a black president for the sake of having one, but, hey, isn't it about time?



The same could be said for women. But I wouldn't vote for a woman, just because she's woman, despite the fact that I would like to see a female president in my lifetime. I think that's the mistake a lot of people initially made with Hillary - beyond what she has done/not done in her political career, which is a separate thread altogether - I think there is the mistaken assumption that women will vote for her just because she's a woman. Not so.



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