Factor 1: Who decides to run for office and what advantages candidates have over one another.
Factor 2: Incumbency. Usually the incumbent (the person already serving in the office) has a large advantage over challengers, unless negative events have the voters wanting to get rid of incumbents.
Factor 3: The way congressional districts are drawn. There have been court cases recently about "gerrymandering" -- attempts by a party in power to draw district boundaries in ways that will serve to perpetuate that party's power.
Defendants in the dock at the Nuremberg trials. The main target of the prosecution was
Hermann Göring.
Harsh Conditions Starvation Trench Foot
The stalemate continued for so long because neither side could gain the advantage because they were shot attempting to cross no mans land
Westward expansion began with the Louisiana Purchase, (it was a movement of settlers into the American West.)
<span>They started because the Persian Empire expanded into Ionia where there were several Greek colonies. The colonists sent back to Greece for help. The Athenians sent a few ships to help the colonists, but the cities were taken any way. To put the mainland Greeks in their place, the Persians sent a small force to punish the Greeks. So begins the battle of Marathon. </span>
