Interesting article in on Bloomberg looking at what might actually happen in November despite the current populist/anti-incumbent rage:
In the House of Representatives, the incumbency rate has averaged 93.3 percent since 1964, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan independent research group tracking money in politics. It dipped below 90 percent only five times in the last 23 elections. The low was 85 percent in 1970...
Even revolutions don’t produce a dramatic shake-up in the composition of the House of Representatives. The Reagan Revolution of 1980 returned 91 percent of House incumbents to their seats. The Republican Revolution of 1994 saw the GOP pick up 54 seats and take control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. Even then 90 percent of House incumbents were re-elected.
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Ms. Baum raises a good point: will it really be different this time? Will we ever actually get politicians to institute their own term limits??? ... Nah.
Found via The Big Picture
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