Excusing low growth due to industry, or economic, weakness merely gives the incumbent a pass.
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Farther north, tea-party activists are targeting incumbent Rep. Frank Pallone in a district that runs along the coast, but polls have shown the incumbent with a lead over Anna Little.
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He was easily the incumbent's equal and maybe more than that, so he became for the first time a real alternative to the incumbent, a living one, not just a name on a ballot.
As a United States Senator, I unseated a corrupt Republican incumbent in a red state -- because the voters knew that I would fight for them, and not the special interests.
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On November 2, virtually every close House race went to a Republican, if the incumbent was a Democrat who had voted for cap-and-trade.
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The last time a Democratic incumbent President faced a Republican challenger with the Black unemployment rate this high was 1980.
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If they win now, they will have a voter-tested incumbent running for a full term in 2014.
The opinion polls say that the incumbent has a solid lead over all his challengers.
These rookie female candidates are Republicans and Tea Partyers, with the exception of Lincoln, both an incumbent and a Democrat.
So everyone except the incumbent has a reason to support open standards.
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The Democrats' tally of seats in the Senate rose to 57 after returns from Oregon showed that the incumbent, a moderate Republican, had been defeated.
The only upset the Democrats managed was in Arkansas, where their challenger beat a Republican incumbent in trouble over a messy divorce and remarriage to his much younger assistant.
These pairs are difficult to break up, so any intruding electron, unable to displace an incumbent from a pair, must occupy a higher, vacant energy level within the superconductor in order to stay put.
He was, because of his switch, a member of -- an incumbent senator and a member of the Democratic Party and he enjoyed our support.
Gordon Smith has a - Republican incumbent Gordon Smith has a conservative third party candidate that's hurting the Republican in Oregon as well.
Often left without a target, the incumbent must have had a frustrating night.
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Pulaski itself trends Democratic in voting, and as the Walker backlash led to numerous state Senate recall races in 2011, it was part of a district where the incumbent Democrat held off a Republican recall attempt, a backlash to the backlash.
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According to a recent opinion poll, the 31st October vote is likely to go to a second round, with incumbent President Leonid Kuchma in a runoff against one of three leftist candidates - Nataliya Vitrenko, Oleksandr Moroz or Petro Symonenko.
As an incumbent president with a strong mandate, Mr Khatami retains much of his authority.
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But voters in Maine seem satisfied with the incumbent King, a lawyer and long-time television talk show host.
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In addition, the incumbent will take a major role in implementing plans to create centres of excellence in the developing world.
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Russia's local elections are open enough for a weak incumbent to lose, especially if he is damaged goods and faces a well-financed opponent.
They wanted to oust a vulnerable incumbent, George W. Bush, who had to defend both a slumping economy plus an unpopular and (some felt) unjustified war.
Indonesia by peaceful election replaced an incumbent president with a retired military man, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is fluent in English, was trained in management in the U.S. and has completed Ph.
The new head of the Catholic Church is usually elected after the death of his predecessor, and there is no public record of any previous meeting between an incumbent pope and a former pope.
It sold shares to western investors, invited Singapore's telecoms incumbent to be a partner, seconded executives from the talent bank, and, after years of losses, now runs the most profitable mobile operator in the country.
The argument represents a shift for the incumbent, who having advocated for a more activist central bank early in his presidency, agreed with German Chancellor Angela Merkel last year to stop commenting on the bank's policy.
These can range from cutoffs of financial flows to ruling elites, to the establishment of rump trade corridors, to multinational trustee arrangements--say, for public health--that can ameliorate the worst suffering while not being rejected by the incumbent rulers as a threat to their power.
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