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End result: A 96% incumbency re-election rate
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This incumbency rate is also related to pork-barrel vote-buying programs.
Every rep and senator grabs as much as they can grab from the coffers, then they parade around campaigning in their home state bragging about how much excessive spending they could secure them.
And then you have the marketing. . . uh, "re-election". . . budgets that the incumbants have which often double those of their most serious opposition, and you have some very difficult obstacles to overcome to make a change in a seat in the U.S Congress.
As former Governer Edwin Edwards used to say down here in Louisiana:. . . . "as long as he don't get caught with a dead girl or a live boy in his bed" . . . the incumbant is likely to win.