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First of all, qualifications for running for the House of Representatives and the senate are different in it is stricter to become a senator. One must be thirty years of age (when the term goes into effect, not on election day); the house age requirement is 25. That would be my first drawback in my quest to run for congress, I do not quite meet the age requirements for either the house or senate. The second qualification for senate is you must be a United States citizen for at least nine years (seven for the house). Lastly, you must live in the state in which you are seeking election but in the case of the House of Representatives you must live in the district in which you are seeking election. Age is my only problem in running for election so essentially I couldn’t run for election but the hard part of the whole process are the steps leading up to election day. ... Nobody really wants a convicted felon running our country, someone that is always in trouble with the law, it would make people question their ability and competence to be a leader the country needs. ... All of this aside, the odds of winning the election are slim to none as “from 1946 to 1988 only six percent of incumbent senators and fewer than two percent of incumbent representatives seeking reelection failed to win re-nomination in primaries (Wilson 190).
Approximate Word count = 1107
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