The Secret Answer, Again

By Knows the Answer
Published/Last Modified on Monday, November 2, 2009 11:25 AM CST

A blog asked the question about how people get re elected.  They mention a person on City Council.

Their constituents elect them and re elect them.  That's the secret, and I have addressed this question before.  The people he represents re elect him because they are satisfied with his

representation and think he does a good job.

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Congress has a 95% re election rate.  Their approval is about 20% or less now.  So how come some

have made lifetime careers of being in Congress like Ted Kennedy, Strom Thurmond, Robert Byrd

and our own Russell Long?

Comments

    MeMeG wrote on Nov 4, 2009 1:13 PM:

    " They get re-elected because they are familiar and because the same people are always going to vote while the people that don't normally vote still aren't going to the polls. Yawnnnn.... Its never going to change... I'm so disgusted with politics... "

    To the Author wrote on Nov 3, 2009 9:51 PM:

    " Seems like they must be getting re-elected?? "

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