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USA Today leads with a new poll it conducted together with CNN and Gallup that apparently indicates House incumbents now stand a better chance of re-election than at any previous time during the 1990s.
Finally, lest their opponents' weakness not suffice to produce a landslide, both incumbents got further help from a third-party candidate: Nixon from George Wallace, who drained white Southern support from the Democrats, and Clinton from Ross Perot, who likely will drain white suburbanites from Dole.
Incumbents are wary about rocking the boat with scandal hearings.
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.
And by the way, why should incumbents be able to fly Uncle Sugar Airlines without paying?