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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.
Having already paid too high a political price for Gingrich's failings, Republican incumbents don't want another headache leading the party.
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.
Cream skimmers profit by selling low cost items at below the incumbents average price.
The fact that voters can and do reject incumbents will strike them as an epiphany.