Your point is well taken and certainly one I've pondered in calculating the effectiveness of such a campaign against the incumbents GAK. With that having been said it seems no matter how you look at it a thorough house cleaning is about the only reasonable course available to the American people in trying to make their message heard.

The largest 2 issues hotly debated within the US in recent years have been illegal immigration and the financial bailouts. While both issues were continuously polled by multiple sources, impartial and otherwise, the public outcries by Americans were pretty strong in how John Q Public felt about them both. Both issues had the offices of our Representatives and Senators phones ringing off the walls, their fax lines jammed and their email boxes stuffed to overflowing with what John Q had to say and it was clearly AGAINST what was voted in in regards to the bailouts and the vote on the amnesty for illegals just barely squeeked by as a victory for the forces against the amnesty the legislation proposed.

When the elected government refuses to do their job, which is to represent their constituants wishes in their stead, what recourse is really left to us but to simply unseat them? The American public by and large on both sides of the political fence are beginning to feel as if no matter what is said or done by the people that elected them, their elected officials simply refuse to act upon the desires made known by the people themselves.

If this (unseating all incumbents) were to occur there would surely be current elected officials unseated that DO work for the people that seated them, while MANY more who do not would also be unseated which would seemingly be the greater good in the long run.

A great number of the citizenry here are amenable to the concept of term limitation for elected officials much like what the office of President is limited to, which is 2 terms. This alone if enacted would have a great effect on how our national government is run as no elected official could then hold court in their little fiefdoms as is the case now and would put the legislative branches back to what they were intended to be where each state received equal representation in the national government. In todays system every long term legislator holds more sway in congress than does a junior member, causing an imbalance in the way things work and this needs to be eliminated.

The problem with getting this to ever become law of course is that the same legislators would be required to agree to such a change, a majority in the House and Senate approve it, then be signed off on by the President ...... which is never gonna happen