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will another sitting speaker lose re-election before the year 2100?

#1 yes		15 (83.3%)
#2 no		3 (16.7%)

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Filuwaúrdjan
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Re: history, Tom Foley, etc.

« on: September 04, 2007, 07:55:17 AM »

Quote from: memphis on September 04, 2007, 07:39:31 AM

I don't see why not. Let's not forget that Daschle was the Democratic leader in the Senate until he failed to win reelection a few years ago.

But there are more safe seats in the House than the Senate.

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Filuwaúrdjan
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Re: history, Tom Foley, etc.

« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2007, 11:43:25 AM »

By way of comparison, during the 20th century not a single British serving Prime Minister lost their seat (the emphasis being on "serving"; quite a few had lost there seats in elections before they became P.M (Churchill managed to do so on several different occasions) and others came very close to doing so (Wilson hung onto Huyton in 1950 by just 834 votes), while some others (Balfour, Asquith, MacDonald) lost theirs when they'd left no.10).

There's no reason, in a FPTP system, to have a leader who holds a marginal seat.

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