Rep. Sean Casten

And I – again, I'm going to sound Boy Scout-y, but I had this conversation with Tammy Duckworth at one point, who of course was in the House before.

And she made the observation that the one thing she missed about the House – like she didn't miss not having to run every two years.

What she missed was that in the House, you have to be right on the pulse of where Americans are all the time.

And in a six-year term, you can –

You can spend the first couple of years just working on things like dictated by your own wisdom.

And there's a value in that in the Senate, but you do, there's, you know, none of us like dialing for dollars.

Some of us like kissing babies for weird reasons.

But there is a value in being out there and saying, okay, where's the pulse of the country right now?

And I have to respond to it because I'm going to be on the ballot again shortly.

I think our founders got that right, even though the consequences of that are a little goofy.

So I never quite know what to make of those studies because, or those polls, because named members always perform well ahead of what the party idea is.

Like, you know, Congress broadly is unfavorable.

The Democratic Party is broadly unfavorable.

The Republican Party is broadly unfavorable.

Sean Caston is popular, right?

At least in my district.

You know, go on down the list.

And I think the...

I think depending on the question we're asking, for all sorts of reasons that you are well aware of, we have political parties.

If you ask people, what are the things that you want government to do and where your values are?