Oh, this screams confidence : The chairman of the House Budget Committee, incumbent Democrat John Spratt of South Carolina, is perfectly willing to debate . . . as long as there are no cameras. This leads to interesting slogans, though:
I chatted with a Washington Republican who's watching the House races closely, and asked whether there were any signs of old-guard House Democrats from deeply conservative, deeply Republican districts getting knocked off this cycle — incumbents like Chet Edwards in Texas, Gene Taylor in Mississippi, Dan Boren in Oklahoma. He said that all three could be considered potentially beatable this year, but the one that jumped out most to him was 14-term incumbent
