(Virtually) No one worth their weight in this state wants to get involved in the political machine chicanery that is embedded into the fabric here. 

People are too busy working, providing and getting by. It takes a certain kind of narcissistic low life to think they ought to be running things because the small detail about "serving and representing the people" ALWAYS seems to be the fastest detail FORGOTTEN by these types. 

But by then they are in office for decades, rotating from state to county to state, ad nauseam. 

I think my pessimism is well founded in the available evidence.

Cheers.