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Editorial Note
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2014
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2 The correlation (Tau) between ideological proximity and perceived ideological distance was .26 for Senate incumbents and .15 for House incumbents.
3 Two recent studies of campaign spending in congressional elections have concluded that higher spending by challengers significantly improves their performance while spending by incumbents has little effect (Glantz, Abramowitz, and Burkart, 1977; Jacobson, 1978).
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