HIST 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship
18 Oct 2016
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Incumbency the status of holding a political office. Members of the house & senate can be incumbents for as long as they can win elections, as there are no term limits. Advantages: takes a lot of money to defeat them, they are re elected at very high rates. Controversies: only really lose when they go through scandal, as that leads to their loss, their resignation, or their failure to seek re election. Wave elections: elections in which voters are dissatisfied with the political status quo and blame 1 party for their unhappiness(usually the one in power). They can sweep out incumbents in a general purge. They affect both parties(gop swept out dems. in 1994 and 2014, dems. swept out gop in 2006) Gerrymandering the process of creating congressional districts with roughly equivalent populations, every 10 years, so that all state residents are represented in a proportional way. Derived from gerry and salamander, it gets its name from.
