The Ultimate Single-Minded Seeker: Raphael Warnock
The Ultimate Single-Minded Seeker All I Think About Is... Reelection! When it comes to reelection, David Mayhew has one grand idea: that everything (or at least a partial amount of everything) Congressmen do, is to get reelected. In short, every Congressmen is a single-minded seeker of reelection—their main goal in every action they take is getting back into their designated Senate (or Representative) seat! Senator Raphael Warnock, a man who has been under many special circumstances regarding his tenure in the junior Senate seat of Georgia, is someone very interesting to look at when it comes to this “single-minded seeker of reelection” theory. To recap: this is Warnock’s first time running for reelection, he only just hit the one year mark in his tenure, and is already up for reelection in nine months! So, let’s take a look at this theory. Mayhew has three kinds of activities that Congressmen engage in when running for reelection: position-taking, credit-claiming, and advertising...
