Your congressman sucks. My congressman is the greatest guy on earth.

[Cosmocat]

6. YEP

This goes at the basic level of "well, I met him or her once and they were nice" thing OR the party thing.

Our R is a schmo. But, it is a mortal lock R district and he knows it. He has one or two things he has crossed over on, but mostly he is a straight R automatic vote who VERY QUICKLY got assimilated into the machine in DC.

I have lost my time and patience with it to an extent. As you noted, CONGRESS SUCKS, but I vote for mine regularly. If people don't get this really basic thing, not much we can do.

Gerrymandering is a big part it. You still would have some districts that would always be a D or R. But, if they set them up straight, enough would be in play to go either way.

And, Ds are just as in the bag on this issue as Rs.