The nice thing about the commercial marketplace is that, regardless of the BS you have to dig through, at some point the product has to deliver or you go out of business.

Not sure that's as true of politics. Black people, for example, need to look around and ask just what the Democratic Party has actually DONE for them lately? Republicans are painfully aware that the Class of 1994 eventually ended up in the same happy trough with all the other big spenders. The reason Republicans lost in 2006 was because many of them weren't really Republicans any more.

Looking at some of those who have been in Congress or the Senate almost forever, you wonder why they keep winning. Marketing is one solution, but I suspect simple inertia is most of it. People go in and vote for the familiar, unless the guy screws up on a level so huge it gets overridden.

Thank God we have presidential term limits. Term limits in the Senate wouldn't suck, either. Or maybe we should scrap the 17th amendment, although I understand the selection process during the late 1800s was kind of a zoo.