Home Style and Hill Style

PRESENTATION ON DC PROGRAM

IN WRITEUPS, EXPLAIN THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU LEARNED ABOUT CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS

For Monday, Davidson, ch. 6

The House

Overview  -- the game

Gerrymandering: cracking, packing, merging, isolating

World War G in 2025-2026!

The gerrymander game

Race and education:  the four quadrants

Crossover districts

The Senate

Senate classes (2024 was a "class 1" election)

The vanishing of split delegations.  The 119th has just three:

1. Maine:  Collins (R) and King (I)
2. Wisconsin: Johnson (R) and Baldwin (D)
3. Pennsylvania: Fetterman (D) and McCormick (R)

Campaign Finance

"Hard money" contribution limits

Outside spending

 A local emergency and a national story:

In their home style (Davidson, 127-129 of paper ed. ), members try to convey

• Qualification
• Identification
• Empathy

Every single member has both a Hill style and a home style.

Take our own House member, Rep. Judy Chu

John McCain in 1993 showed that a fierce maverick can become very deferential when facing little old ladies:

 

AOC-DC questions Michael Cohen:



Consider the characteristics of NY 14 as AOC goes local:

AOC District Office

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During non-pandemic times, different kinds of encounters take place at town halls:

 

Town halls can sometimes get testy. This week, for instance:

US Style -- one measure

Highest Percentage from Small Donors in the 2024 cycle

• Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA): 72.6% ($5.76 million)
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY): 69.9% ($10.60 million)
• Bernie Sanders (I-VT): 63.6% ($22.73 million)
• Jim Jordan (R-OH): 55.7% ($7.42 million)
• Eli Crane (R-AZ): 54.9% ($4.63 million)

For detailed breakdowns of individual candidate records, you can search for specific members on the OpenSecrets Large vs. Small Donations tracker.