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[TheKentuckian]

171. A lot of that is being on at least a national discussion and the other races are local.

The nature of the beast is going to push focus toward the bigger picture. It is just harder to have a dialog about state legislatures because the pool of people with any insights is going to be tiny, there may well be zero people in our neighborhoods so that stuff just isn't discussed so all the focus goes to the Federal level because we will at least know the players slightly but it still about the districts and again the sample size of people is limited, add in the safe districts and you are limited again.

I think contested, even plausibly contested Senate seats get some decent air but the President is the only office we all participant in so it is just way easier to get into because it is the only one we all get a piece of no matter how tiny.

It is also the pace sitter and vitality position that colors all the races down, the national convention and platform for around the race and the office sucks up the national oxygen.

I will also point out that it was when we changed to the Turd Way formula for winning the Whitehouse it almost immediately led to the loss of decades of domination of the legislature, that national image and formula relentlessly pushed seems to correlate with wider spread brand destruction to me.

Also, the folks who complain about this dynamic do no more to change it than anyone. Complaining about only focusing on the President is still just focusing on that office, it is just taking another angle to do so and isn't actually leading the topics to more diverse pastures.

We can and do discuss issues but we argue because there is substantial disagreement on handling and priority and various well know politicians become totems as well as some are not about particular issues as a focus but rather straight up electoral politics which keeps significant attention on the politicians.

The Presidency is the common language of American politics and more at the center than 8th grade civics would imply.