Political Campaigns
After 10-term Republican congressman Robert Smith Walker opted not to run for reelection in 1996, Pitts won a crowded four-way primary. This was tantamount to election in this heavily Republican district. He has been reelected six times with no substantive opposition and faced no major-party opposition in 2002.
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