Democratic No-Shows

[Axtremus]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/us/missouri-uncontested-races-elections.html

And though defending democracy was a dominant theme of the Democratic National Convention last month, in the 2022 midterms, Democrats failed to field a single candidate for fully half of all partisan offices — well over three times the rate of Republican no-shows.

That analysis of electoral competition comes from three nonprofit groups that assembled a database of races in the 2022 election cycle for more than 29,400 partisan offices nationwide, from U.S. senator to members of local airport district boards. Of those offices, 14,450 had but one candidate.

[jon-nyc]

Most of our town elections have one candidate. Or 6 for 5 seats.

[Jolly]

No money in it.