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Adam Smith: That is right. I was an incumbent in our State. I had an 88 percent name ID, and so that gave me a help. But what if you…

On the recordJuly 11, 1995
That is right. I was an incumbent in our State. I had an 88 percent name ID, and so that gave me a help. But what if you were just some good person that wanted to run and you were going to have to run against an incumbent called the ``PAC Queen,'' would you have much of a chance? I think when we change the selection system to where you put the elections back in the States, you take good people and allow them to run good, clean campaigns, and you do not put them here, having to work, I consider it like swimming around in a polluted pond. It would be a lot more fun to swim in a clean structure. And we put good people here under a system that just needs to be changed.
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Adam Smith
Democratic · Washington

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Discussing the challenges faced by new candidates against incumbents in elections.

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