Who can realistically run for President? U.S. Senators, governors, certain generals, successful CEOs with nationwide reputation, and members of the U.S. House of Representatives, although the last group is seldom successful. Any native-born citizen who is 35 years old may run for President, but the group who has any chance of actually winning is relatively tiny.
Who can realistically run for U.S. Senate? Members of the House, governors or other state-wide officials, CEOs, generals and admirals, and certain state legislators. This subset is larger than that for President, but still rather small. The name given to people who stand a chance to be elected to a certain office is “the recruitment pool.”
The lower the office, the wider the pool. For example, borough council candidates include men and women who are active in volunteer work, teachers, business owners, labor union leaders, planning commission members--just about anyone who wants to make the effort to walk door-to-door and print up a few flyers.
A party that hopes to win the higher offices has to start years earlier at the lowest levels of government. It has to place its members on planning commissions, school boards, borough councils, and boards of supervisors. It cannot think only of the next election, but must think of elections twenty or thirty years down the pike.
In Carbon County I believe the Republicans are thinking long term. They get the recruitment pool concept. I’m not so sure about the Democrats.
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