First transgender woman elected to congress

Congratulations to Sarah McBride the first transgender woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. She will be representing Delaware. I'm so glad this happened. It is a small step forward. Of course, she will have to deal with bigotry and prejudice from small-minded, backward people.

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GeniUs · 56-60, M

As long as this person was elected because they do a good job I'm ok with this. Having said that it is very difficult to quantify when a politician does a good job.

James25 · 61-69, M

@GeniUs I think it is actually very easy to quantify. Are they actually helping and benefiting their constituency. That is how you would measure them doing a good job.

GeniUs · 56-60, M

@James25 Yes but it is difficult to evaluate the big picture accurately if I may use the example of PM Blair (UK) and this was at the time of Clinton who also likes to blow his trumpet about the good times he brought to the US. They both claimed that there was unprecedented growth during their administrations but this was reflected worldwide so it was unlikely that their policies had caused it. I'm going to drop Clinton out of the equation now but Blair's legacy, was a massive increase in public spending and debt that has never been recovered and there was also almost unilateral fraud of public funds by MPs (the elected) expenses but this was waved away with the destruction of all expense information.
TLDR it's usually very difficult to quantify when a politician does a good job down to the many external factors influencing them.