Despite the grousing, voters rarely fire lawmakers

Washington Examiner ^ | June 29 2014 | AP

[PoloSec]

In fact, two-thirds of Americans want their own House member booted. And the tea party is dogging longtime Republican lawmakers.

So incumbents are sweating out this year's election, right?

Nope. Mostly they're not.

People talk about throwing the bums out, but voters keep sending the same bunch back in.

[Jacquerie]

Congressional districts are far too large, over 720,000 constituents. As our framing generation knew, large districts meant an aristocratic rather than representative House of Reps.

Double at least the number of reps and send the states back to the senate.

[discostu]

There’s no paradox, it’s campaign finance reform. Every time they tighten the donation regulations the rate of incumbent return goes up. Because they always make it harder to get money, which makes the fact that incumbents can campaign as part of their “governing” (that wasn’t a campaign, that was a meeting with my constituents) more valuable. If we want to see some turn over ditch CFR.

[okie01]

If we want to see some turn over ditch CFR.

Recall that McCain-Feingold was also known as the "Incumbency Protection & Media Empowerment Act of 2002".

Recall also that John McCain counted "keeping experienced legislators on the job" as one of the acts benefits.

[PoloSec]

Please check out my blog post: http://backyardfence.wordpress.com/conservative-action-plan/

That is a good plan, but it will take a revolution to implement it, one that in no way can happen in a peaceful manner. IMO!

The Republic is just too far gone, we hem hawed around too long.

[BobL]

Tell that to CANTOR!!!

We don’t have to fire that many...in fact, one is JUST ENOUGH, to get the MESSAGE ACROSS that we MEAN BUSINESS.

So yea, go tell the OTHER Republicans from OK, AK, KS, and the rest of the country that Cantor was a FLUKE...and see what they have to say.

[Maceman]

Yes, but election night would be more exciting.

Well, I don't know about that, but I'm trying to imagine what the voting experience would be if every voter had to make a selection in all 435 congressional races.