Calling on a politician to resign is civic advocacy justified when the politician has lost favor, confidence and jeopardizes the existence of his own political entity as shown when the politician has been massacred at the ballot box.
We expect a higher level of campaigning, one that rises above the overdone wine downs and the tantalize and the hints at raunchiness. Campaigns are events at which politicians solicit the vote not expect it; which would require them to make a substantial case to both their base and to others who may be won over.
