In 1968, for instance, a Minnesota senator, Eugene McCarthy, engaged the incumbent President, Lyndon Johnson.
In 1972, incumbent President Nixon trounced McGovern, who won only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
As an incumbent president with a strong mandate, Mr Khatami retains much of his authority.
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Those elections pitted incumbent President Mwai Kibaki against Raila Odinga who leads the Orange Democratic Movement.
That failure owed everything to the bitter feud between Mr Menem and Eduardo Duhalde, Argentina's incumbent president.
And in an April 11-14, 1980, poll, incumbent President Jimmy Carter led Ronald Reagan by 42% to 34%.
In November 1980, after his landslide victory over incumbent President Carter, Ronald Reagan's favorable rating was 67 percent.
We know that a third party candidate can wreak serious havoc in an election where there is an incumbent president.
In the 2002 presidential election, angry voters propelled Mr. Le Pen into a second-round runoff against incumbent President Jacques Chirac.
In Kenya's 2007 elections, incumbent president Mwai Kibaki defeated his main rival, Raila Odinga, by a margin of 230, 000 votes.
The last time a Democratic incumbent President faced a Republican challenger with the Black unemployment rate this high was 1980.
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In 1976, incumbent President Gerald Ford challenged Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter to a debate, heralding a new era of presidential debates.
Last year's presidential race was won overwhelmingly by incumbent President Alvaro Uribe, who received more than 62% of the popular vote.
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The party of an incumbent president traditionally loses seats in midterm elections.
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Incumbent President George W. Bush won the Electoral College vote 292 to 252 and racked up 3 million more votes than Kerry.
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The incumbent president, Mwai Kibaki, from the Kikuyu ethnic group, stayed on.
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Republican incumbent President George W. Bush and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen.
Mr Duhalde, the incumbent president, had been turned down by three other potential nominees from the ranks of Peronism, Argentina's hegemonic political movement.
Mr Obama was re-elected with the highest unemployment rate - at 7.9% - for any incumbent president since the US wartime leader Franklin Roosevelt.
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Last week's election pitched incumbent President Mwai Kibaki, a member of Kenya's largest Kikuyu tribe, against opposition leader Raila Odinga of the Luo tribe.
In an April 20-22, 1992, Gallup poll, incumbent President George H.
It finished second to that of incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
He was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Democratic nominee for president in 2004, when he lost to incumbent President George W. Bush.
Abdullah Abdullah, the chief election rival of incumbent President Hamid Karzai, told reporters Sunday that his campaign had gathered evidence of widespread poll manipulation by Karzai supporters.
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The DNC is a political tradition that dates back to 1832, when Democrat Martin Van Buren secured his position as running mate to incumbent president Andrew Jackson.
That may be difficult since their party tends to be defined, as it was not in the breakout years of 2006 and 2008, by a liberal incumbent president.
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The last time an incumbent president skipped his party's convention was in 1968, when President Lyndon Johnson stayed at his Texas ranch while Democrats met in Chicago, Illinois.
The chairman, former French President, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, was appointed to the post amid much bickering after the country's incumbent president Jacques Chirac threatened to veto any other choices.
Incumbent President Jakaya Kikwete is expected to win the presidential poll, although he faces a strong challenge from former priest Willibrod Slaa and university professor Ibrahim Lipumba, among six opposition candidates.
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.
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