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To: popdonnelly

If they just drew congressional districts to be more competitive, we wouldn’t need term limits.


57 posted on 03/19/2010 2:11:45 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Ted Grant
Unfortunately, I don't think that's possible. The benefits of perpetual incumbency will always distort the competitive field. I used to think that term limits were not worth the cost (i.e., always having newbies in office who had to reinvent the wheel every four or six years or so), but I have now completely changed my mind. The Founders intended for Congress to be run by amateurs, and I think that we ought to go back to that view by making perennial incumbency impossible.


60 posted on 03/19/2010 3:15:24 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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