Paul S. Herrnson is director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship and professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. He is the author of "Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington", 4th ed. (2004) and "Party Campaigning in the 1980s" (1988) and coauthor of "The Financiers of Congressional Elections" (2003). He is coeditor of several volumes, including "War Stories from Capitol Hill" (2003), "Responsible Partisanship? The Evolution of American Political Parties Since 1950" (2003), "Multiparty Politics in America", 2nd ed. (2002), and "Pl