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It just shows that all incumbents who aren't under house arrest will win, quips Gigot (the only incumbent to lose was a representative under house arrest).
The LAT lead says the Republican grip on the House is "especially tenuous" because the party has the slimmest majority either party's had there since 1954, Democrat fund raising is more effective than it's historically been, and because more than three times as many Republican incumbents as Democrats are vacating their seats.
And by the way, why should incumbents be able to fly Uncle Sugar Airlines without paying?
The NYT fronts and the WP carries inside Bill Bradley's speech Monday in which he charged that Al Gore had little interest in campaign-finance reform because the current money-raising system favors incumbents.
This is true, say Michael Bechloss (NBC's Meet the Press ), Bill Kristol ( This Week ), and Mark Shields (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ). The reason is that people are generally quite content, say Kristol and Doyle McManus ( Washington Week in Review )--incumbents don't want to rock the boat.