CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS
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- Created on: 08-06-18 11:53
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- CONGRESS ELECTIONS
- Incumbency
- 2014, 11% approval rate, yet 97% of incumbents were re-elected
- 2004, record high of 99%
- 2008, 396 of 435 sought re-election, only 39 'open seats'
- 2016, Alabama had 7 incumbents in all 7 seats, 3 unchallenged
- Massachusetts 9 incumbents in the 9 seats, 4 unchallenged
- ISSUES
- Calls to add fixed terms like in the UK FTPA 2011 because of slow turnover
- Redistricting every 10 years, per SC order to prevent malapportion-ment that denotes popularity inequality
- Protected by the 14th Amendment equal protection clause
- Redistricting can cut an incumbent out of their own district by drawing boundary lines that do not include that incumbents' home
- Redistricting every 10 years, per SC order to prevent malapportion-ment that denotes popularity inequality
- Calls to add fixed terms like in the UK FTPA 2011 because of slow turnover
- PAC's likely to invest in candidates they already know
- Mid-terms
- All 435 up for re-election
- House elections more significant than the 1/3 of the Senate
- Can alter the minority or majority position in either chamber e.g. Obama 2010 "got a shellacking"
- House elections more significant than the 1/3 of the Senate
- Arguably a referendum on the importance of the incumbent
- Turnout more significant [40%], decided by differential turnout, 2010 Democrats abstained
- Stakes not as high? Election issues more local rather than national
- All 435 up for re-election
- Incumbency
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