The mood

Many feel that the public is in a bad mood and they would more than likely to be right. With voters tossing out two incumbent Senators and a party switching Congressman in Northern Alabama the mood amongst any voters is not sympathetic. What does this mean exactly for all incumbents generally if you keep the race local your in good shape as several congressional special elections have shown. however before people believe we are going to have a whole new Congress lets understand the numbers. In 2006 when democrats capitalized on the voters being angry at George W. Bush and took control of both houses of Congress with large majorities in those houses. Only 14% of incumbents lost in 2006, yes thats right the giant democratic wave of 2006 gave 86% of the incumbents their seats back. So just because the mood in the country is currently against incumbents, the truth is that the vast majority will be re-elected.