re: #351 RogueOne

I would have hoped someone sitting behind whatever idiot it was that booed would have slapped him in the back of his head. That didn’t happen but at least people got on him:

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Santorum gave an awful answer to the question. I’m not sure what he’s running for, he doesn’t have a shot at winning a primary much less the nomination. He couldn’t even win his own seat as an incumbent.

Santorum rode a wave up and it already crashed.

He was an up-and-comer when he first got elected to the House (and was one of those “we’re gonna change Washington” freshmen who got beat/bribed into line once he got there.) Area of SW Pennsylvania he represented was fairly conservative and he beat a 7-term Democrat Congressman (Walgren) who ran a piss-poor.

His district got gerrymandered by the Democrats to be something like 60% Democratic*. And he won re-election because the Democrats put up a hack to run against him thinking the election was in the bag.

He got to the Senate by winning the election in 1994 beating Wofford. Wofford was finishing out the term of John Heinz that he’d gotten by special election in 1991. And 1994 was the off-term election that gave the GOP the House and Senate (and Newt as SotH).

And he won re-election to the Senate in 2000 against Ron Klink - who was virtually unknown in eastern PA.

In the 1990s and 2000s PA was pretty much two Republican Senators (Spector and someone else) and the governorship switching back and forth every few terms because of term limitations.

*- That redistricting made him my representative at the time.