Especially when you have a suicidal GOPe running the show.
“Incumbency is always difficult to run against.”
In Texas there was no credible candidates (with money) who stepped up in the March primaries against any of the Fed. G’ment scumm.
John Wayne Cornin had a wackjob U.S. congressman from East Texas running against him. There were no candidates against the incumbents in most of the U.S. house races.
The mood of the people (or is it just us?) does not appear to be too unhappy with the status quo.