Question

what is the main reason why incumbents are re-elected

Answer 1

Because of name recognition with voters. But this is probably less important than that they are a known quantity. When you go into your voting booth, and you find you're expected to vote for, say, a water district commissioner. And you didn't even realize such people were on the ballot, and you aren't even sure what a water commissioner does -- what are you likely to do? Re-elect the incumbent, of course. He's a known quantity. He's already had the job. You figure if he was really screwing up at it, you'd know it. The water would turn off, turn brown, stink, or something like that. Or there'd be some big story about corruption and scandal at the water commission, with J. Quincy Commissioner hiding his face from the camera.

In the absence of reason to throw someone out of office, people quite naturally re-elect the guy who's had the job, and apparently been capable of doing it.

Why this strikes anyone as strange, I do not know. It would be an absolutely terrible comment on democracy if the reverse were true -- if incumbents regularly lost re-election. That would say either (1) people were able to get elected under false pretenses, meaning they SEEMED competent but turned out to be complete screw-ups, and so had to be replaced, or (2) once elected, people succumbed to corrupting impulses, and became no longer fit for office, so that they had to be replaced. Either way, this would present very dim prospects for democracy.

In the private world, we think a company that replaces its CEO every year is clearly dysfunctional. Why would we think differently if voters needed to replace their Representative every two years?

Answer 2

-sentors are elected from a district
-a personal staff member works directly with individual senators and congressmen
-agency that is known as the ''watchdog'' over congressional spending

Answer 3

Are these the things you have to choose from?

Answer 4

no i have to figure the word for each on the define sentence

Answer 5

What do you mean?

Answer 6

like this one i got to figure it out it si an example
-sentors are elected from a district- congressional commiittee i do no know if it right

Answer 7

The last one might be Government Accountability Office.