Word: ornstein
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...truth is that House incumbents are difficult to dislodge; normally 90% or more of them are reelected. The reason may be that while people generally hold Congress in low esteem, they often admire their own Representative. Norman Ornstein, a professor of government at Washington's Catholic University, notes that even in a year like this, when voters are pleased with the President, "they don't have the impulse to throw the bums out. They tend to re-elect the Government." In that sense, this year's mood of satisfaction paradoxically helped many Democratic incumbents as well...
...absolute best the Republicans can hope for in the House is to gain a few of the 26 seats they lost in 1982, and even that won't give them a working coalition with conservative Democrats," says Norman Ornstein, a political science professor at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. "But in the Senate they face a real challenge," Ornstein adds...
What's more, even the best of Dems are envious of Republican organizational skills. Ornstein says the Republicans are better at spending their money. That is, because their funding organizations are tightly centralized, they can carefully target funds towards close races. Democratic funding organizations, by contrast, are more decentralized and those candidates who need large sums of cash are often left in the lurch while runaway winners sometimes find huge chunks of money in their treasuries when their campaigns are over...
...awfully depressing to know you may not be in the House majority, even in your lifetime," says Ornstein...
...Ornstein noted the retirement of respected Republican New York representative, Barner B. Conable Jr., as an example of about a halfdozen senior House GOP members who are stepping down this year...