Again, sorry for my ignorance,
I was just reading that senators hardly ever seem to win an election.
Why is this?
Will/Why it change in 08? (if not, it's over for the dems, and leaves only Huck, Romney, Guiliani on the rep side?
Cheers
The reason Senators rarely win elections is their paper trail. Senators are often faced with a number of votes that are either all-or-nothing, or where they are forced to compromise for something (half-a-loaf or none at all, as they say). These votes can then often be mischarecterized by their opponents. Voting against an education bill can come back and haunt you, even if the reason for your no vote was because it had some ridiculous clause attached to it... on the converse, if you vote for it, your opponent can bring up that one clause and say "Sen. Smith voted for allowing the distribution of condoms in schools"... or something like that. Also, committee votes tend to pile up against you.
Anyway, that is the short hand of it.
