Pay sucks though and you get booed by people in public. And having to campaign every 6 years seems unpleasant compared to making 7 or 8 figures annually without anyone caring about you
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The pay is a 93rd percentile top wage earner last i checked $175k a year, more for leadership
aug 31, 2025, 8:34 am • 1 0 • view
That's not very much for someone like her lol
aug 31, 2025, 8:37 am • 4 0 • view
For at least 160 million Americans it would be a raise, for most of those, a life altering raise Almost 40 million of us live on less than a quarter of that pay
aug 31, 2025, 8:44 am • 0 0 • view
Okay, but she's not most people. She will 100% make more than her current salary at her next job and it won't be close. Senators are underpaid IMO but that's a separate and unpopular conversation.
aug 31, 2025, 8:45 am • 4 0 • view
Underpaid? Ridiculous is soften unpopular, true Their pay should be tied to the median wage and adjusted annually
aug 31, 2025, 8:54 am • 0 0 • view
Plus per diem.
aug 31, 2025, 2:24 pm • 1 0 • view
most seats are easy wins. she’s dipping because she fucked up majorly and went full nihilist at a town hall. most politicians have poise. she didn’t.
aug 31, 2025, 8:15 am • 1 0 • view
Eh shes not retiring cause of one bad townhall. Republicans say shit like that daily lol
aug 31, 2025, 8:16 am • 2 0 • view
i have some family in iowa. i’ve chatted with them. it absolutely wrecked her shit.
aug 31, 2025, 8:18 am • 1 0 • view
iowa is solidly red at this point but it also has a weird defiant streak that goes back a long time, they didn’t appreciate their senator telling them to go get fucked.
aug 31, 2025, 8:23 am • 1 0 • view
She had a really bad debate back in 2020 where ppl were making fun of her for not knowing basic farm stuff and thinking it was gonna move ppl. She ended up winning by 6 points and massively overperforming the polling. Politicians don't retire because of a bad town hall answer.
aug 31, 2025, 8:28 am • 1 0 • view
it’s not one thing, the environment is bad *and* she alienated a substantially non zero number of voters. porque los dos
aug 31, 2025, 8:30 am • 4 0 • view
Plus the sex stuff
aug 31, 2025, 12:20 pm • 1 0 • view
bad town hall + bad general environment + personal corruption does not a winning combo make. iowa is probably getting trump econ fallout a little more than everyone else right now b/c he fucked up the pork and soybean markets.
aug 31, 2025, 8:42 am • 3 0 • view
...if chuckles grassley is crying about it, can't be good.
aug 31, 2025, 8:42 am • 0 0 • view
So I agree that the environment is a huge driver for her ditching the Senate, I just disagree that she believes she's got no chance. I think she just doesn't have the stomach anymore to actually fight a semi competitive race
aug 31, 2025, 8:48 am • 7 0 • view
Yeah we were gonna get a bunch of polling showing her down by 3 and she was going to win by 2. But every time she goes in public now, someone gives her shit and she is offended that some plebs have the gall.
aug 31, 2025, 12:15 pm • 2 0 • view
We have a tendency to just peg expectations to PVI or 2024 outcomes and all... but if you don't live in corn and soybean country right now, you don't appreciate how pissed off a lot of folks are right now with respect to trade.
aug 31, 2025, 10:44 am • 1 0 • view
Ya no one *has to* get booed by their constituents she did this to herself because she's just a bad person.
aug 31, 2025, 8:16 am • 0 0 • view
The polling was actually bad for her in 2020, and she ended up winning fairly comfortably. I don't think she's given hope she can win. I just think the fun of being a Senator is outweighed by the bad for her (which includes having to keep fighting for a senate seat instead of coasting)
aug 31, 2025, 8:20 am • 2 0 • view
Also probably easier to bang military lobbyists if you become a military lobbyist.
aug 31, 2025, 8:27 am • 2 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 8:28 am • 4 0 • view
I bet the creepy old farmer guys all think she's attractive and that's really the only reason they keep voting for her
aug 31, 2025, 8:30 am • 0 0 • view