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Originally posted by sugar and spice
Hello, welcome to 1865.
Where in the world do people still use the term "carpetbagger"?
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Because it's a term still used today to mean a candidate for any office that uses it as a stepping stone to 'bigger and better things'.
HRC ran for the senate seat in New York because it's ridiculously easy to claim residency to be eligible to run for office (you have to be a resident of the state on Election Day to be eligible). Robert F. Kennedy did the same thing in 1966, then he quit his seat to run for President two years later.
Hillary Rodham's a native Chicagoan, and until she bought the house in Chappaqua, New York, she had very little knowledge of New York's politics and issues. (Betchyerass she got a crash course on 'em when she ran for office.) Such a move was taken in political circles to mean she may have higher political aspirations in the future. Who knows what she has in mind in two or four years? New York doesn't have an 'LBJ law' like Texas does that allows a congressman or senator to run for their old job, while running for another higher office.
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