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90% of those in congress will have uncontested races. head honchos at the fec and counter parties in the republican party make decisions about how to to target and essentially say to the other races, who cares. if we had a more sane campaign financing section and had public elections, you could have competitive races in which you had incredible candidates in every race, running against jim demint, who democrats made a calculation he was too strong to take on simply because of the amount of money they had to raise. that's insane. there's no reason we should have a democracy in which incumbency ...

The people in congress are going to face essentially uncontested races. it costs so much money to challenge an incumbent, those resources are so scare that essentially head honchos at the sec and d triple c and counter parties make decisions about how to target and essentially say to the other raise who cares? if we had a more sane campaign financing section and had public elections, you could have competitive races in which you had incredible candidates in every race, running against jim demint, who democrats made a calculation he was too strong to take on simply because of the amount of mone...