Although this is not a presidential election year, there are nonetheless some fierce campaigns going on as politicians vie for the seats in the Senate and House of Representatives that will be up for grabs this fall. A poll released on Thursday, July 20, showed that multi-term incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman may be trailing his opponent Ned Lamont during these weeks leading up to August’s Democratic primary election. Clearly, Queen Elizabeth I had a point when she said that the public tends to be more interested in a new leader, who might bring positive change, than in the leader they already know well:
“I know the inconstancy of the people . . . , how they ever mislike the present government and [have] their eyes fixed upon that person that is next to succeed; and naturally men be so disposed: Plures adorant solem orientem quam occidentum.*”
*From Plutarch, this translates as “More do adore the rising than the setting sun.”
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