Ballot Access News reports:
The December 17 issue of The Republican, the daily newspaper of Springfield, Massachusetts, has this editorial, opposing any 3-candidate debates in the upcoming special election for U.S. Senate. The independent candidate, Joseph L. Kennedy, should be excluded, the paper argues, because he is “little-known” and “no relation to the family of the deceased Senator.”
The political cultural of Massachusetts, and especially of its newspapers, seems highly tilted against having real competition in elections. According to the neutral, scholarly book “Reforming State Legislative Elections” by Political Science Professor William Salka, Massachusetts has the second-least competitive elections of any of the 50 states. Massachusetts is the only state in the east in which most legislative elections have only one candidate on the ballot. Massachusetts was the only state in the nation in 2008 in which a majority of U.S. House seats only had one candidate on the ballot. But, the Massachusetts media never comment on that aspect of Massachusetts elections. They seem to take it for granted, as though it were the norm, not worthy of commentary.
More proof of the anti competitive political environment of a decaying fascist imperial global empire. How sad, how sad ………
I wonder why it is so important for only the two “major” candidates to go head to head in debate. It is not like there will only be one other Senator they have to debate.