Our Alabama Congressional delegation will all be reelected next month, as usual.  We are no different than any other state when it comes to the incumbency advantage of being a congressperson.  When someone is elected to the U.S. Congress, they are usually there for life unless they run for higher office.  They probably would not be defeated unless they killed someone and that probably would not be enough.  It would probably depend on who they killed.  The Congress is so divided and acrimonious along party lines that if they killed another member of Congress from a different party it would probably help them and enshrine them in their seat for life.  The reelection rate for members of the U.S. Congress is over 93 percent.  That is similar to the Communist Russian Politburo.  Our Congress is more akin to the British parliament where they quasi own their seat.  

Our delegation will have one new member. Dale Strong will take the Republican seat of Mo Brooks in the 5th District, Huntsville-Tennessee Valley area.  He started early and stayed late.  He began the campaign as the favorite and remained the frontrunner throughout the two year campaign to capture the open seat.  Strong has been a popular chairman of the Madison County Commission.  He is a native Huntsvillian and was educated grade school through college in the Madison County area.  He was backed, strongly, by the Huntsville/Madison business community.  They realize the importance of having a pragmatic, pro-business, conservative, who will be a GOP team player in Washington. It is imperative for the Redstone Arsenal to have a workhorse in that Seat.  They will miss Richard Shelby, who has done all of the heavy lifting for federal growth.  They are glad and fortunate to swap Mo Brooks for Dale Strong. Strong is relatively young and will probably be a long-termer.