LogicalRandomness

Fascinating. Thank you.

Huh. How do they go about actually recruiting candidates? Do they just pick a major donor or local figure, have someone call the person and go "Hey, you wanna be in congress" or is it more of a process where you have to make it known you want to run and then be 'asked' as a formality before starting a campaign? Maybe it's because I want to run for office one day myself, but I have trouble understanding how national committees aren't swamped with people looking to be candidates every election cycle.

I don't know if you're still answering, but what's up with recruiting candidates? Do the parties actually have to go looking for people and convince them to run for congress? I figured it would be the other way around.