Absentee mayors are losing their presidential footing

There are two different types of elected political position — “jobs” and “offices.”  Jobs require officials to be responsive to constituents 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, whereas offices provide those elected more leeway to travel, throw their hat in the ring for higher office and run their mouths all over cable news.
United States senators are “officeholders.”  If you sit in the legislative branch’s upper chamber yo