Money machine goes brrrr, @FAST6191 - what could go wrong? As for her election, despite the clear advantage you've described, she was still the underdog in that particular case, so there's a degree of luck and populism in that particular mix too. Dumb luck, you could say.
Or not any of those things, maybe people in the real world, that is to say, people who don't hang on gaming boards, want a more progressive representative.
Occam's razor and all that.