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> The House turns over a lot. The Senate is a different story I respectfully refer the gentleperson from Spooky to the following: https://www.opensecrets.org/
by forapurpose 8y ago
> The House turns over a lot. The Senate is a different story
I respectfully refer the gentleperson from Spooky to the following:
https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/reelect.php https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/reelect.php
Few things in life are more predictable than the chances of an incumbent member of the U.S. House of Representatives winning reelection.
They don't provide a number but eyeballing the chart, I think that number starts with a "9" over several decades, and is increasing. Here's an article that says it was around 96.6% in 2014;[0] it must be embarrassing to find yourself in the bottom 3.4 percent of any group.
(It also says House members are reelected more often than Senate members.)
[0] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/nov/11/facebook-posts/congress-has-11-approval-ratings-96-incumbent-re-e/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/nov/...