What usually happens to the party in power during these elections?
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U.S. Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz is serving in her first term representing the 13th District of Pennsylvania.
The district borders the Delaware River in Northeast Philadelphia and stretches from the suburbs of Abington Township in eastern Montgomery County to the farmlands in the extreme western part of Montgomery County.
What usually happens to the party in power during these elections?
ANSWER: They usually lose seats in Congress.
Arlen Specter• Elected 1980 to the US
Senate.• Former Chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee.• Assistant Counsel on the
Warren Commission investigation into President Kennedy's assassination.
• DA for city of Philadelphia
Bob Casey• Served in the United States
Senate since January of 2007 • Democrat
Strom Thurmond• Ex-segregationist and
former Democrat who became a fixture of southern Republicanism.
• South Carolina• Elected to Senate 9X• 48 years in Senate• Ran for President in 1948
vs Harry Truman