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Kentucky candidate 'finally' poses the question on everyone’s minds
McConnell’s Vanishing Act Is Not a Mystery. It’s a Power Exercise.The Source of the FrenzyThe reporting starts with a rumor and ends with a useful truth: Mitch McConnell’s prolonged absence after a health emergency has produced a vacuum that other politicians are too timid, too complicit, or too irrelevant to fill. At the Fancy Farms picnic in Kentucky, the crowd chanted, “Where’s Mitch?” and an obscure third-party candidate joked about whether McConnell was even alive. The point is not the joke. The point is that the public is being forced to guess because the people who control the office…
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