{"id":22296,"date":"2019-03-15T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=22296"},"modified":"2019-02-15T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:08:14","slug":"why-arent-defeated-american-presidential-candidates-snapped-up-by-other-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/15\/why-arent-defeated-american-presidential-candidates-snapped-up-by-other-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Why aren&#8217;t defeated American Presidential candidates snapped up by other nations?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a conundrum: in a ratio of 500:28, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election\">Hillary Clinton was endorsed by our smartest citizens<\/a> (journalists, editors, and publishers) as the best qualified person, out of more than 325 million, to lead the United States government. After November 2016, however, she didn&#8217;t have any pressing job responsibilities and her family foundation was also winding down. Why wouldn&#8217;t a country of 5 or 10 million have tried to persuade her to come over and be their leader? From a statistical point of view, assuming equal intelligence and education levels, it is unlikely that a country of 10 million would have a better person available than someone who was #1 out of 325 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We could ask the same question about Mitt Romney, John Kerry, Carly Fiorina, Al Gore, Sarah Palin, Bernie Sanders, et al. These folks rose pretty close to the top in the American electoral system, so tens of millions of people thought that they had tremendous abilities. 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