Abstract
Recent research results emphasize the role of congressional challengers in furthering the electoral success of incumbents. One factor in the seeming weakness of most challengers is their inability to forge a majority coalition because of a reliance on subjective information and a limited understanding of major groups in the district. Such constraints appear to be related to candidate recruitment, which attracts politically inexperienced individuals to contests dominated by an incumbent or a single party.
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