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...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...
...ranks ahead of the president of any major corporation, of any banker but David Rockefeller. Such ratings, as Catholic University Professor Norman Ornstein sensibly observes in the same issue, "underscore the power of personality, notoriety and the perception of power, as much as its reality...
...Ornstein suggests it is time for academics to redefine "government." True, its heart still is the courts, the Congress and the Executive. But the special interests, the media, the experts have grabbed a larger share of the power. We pay a price sometimes in delay and frustration. "There is the old saying that one should never watch laws or sausage being made," says Ornstein. "We've opened up this Government so much that it is like having an entire sausage factory on the nightly news. The process may not look like much, but the product is good...