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...voters do view the incumbent??s track record as a plus, UC electoral history points to one other route by which an underdog could gain in the polls. In the UC election of fall 2005, the initial insider favorites—John F. Voith ’07 and Tara Gadgil ’07—finished last after a series of faux pas marred their campaign...
...Pennsylvania, for instance, incumbent Republican Senator Rick Santorum is battling a stiff challenge from the state’s Democratic Auditor General Bob Casey in a race that has tightened considerably in the past months. If the rest of the Senate races are returned to the incumbent or incumbent??s party, a victory for the Democrats in Pennsylvania would even the Senate at 50 seats apiece. Because of the closeness and importance of this particular race, both the HRC and Dems are planning October campaign trips to the Keystone State in order to support their respective candidates...
...Gordon says that Reeves signaled his support at the incumbent??s campaign kick-off event last June. Still, according to Winters, such gestures—which fall within the election-season norm—don’t imply an all-out endorsement. For many incumbents, gaining a challenger’s secondary and tertiary votes in Cambridge’s idiosyncratic proportional-representation system can spell electoral success...
Voters across the country turned out in seemingly record numbers yesterday for the culmination of a bitter presidential campaign which focused squarely on the incumbent??s war in Iraq. But while the war weighed heavily on voters’ minds, exit polls indicated they were equally, if not more, concerned with the economy and moral values...
...clear that I would not be a helpful addition to the search committee,” Guzzetti said. “[The archive transfer] was an administrative move made with the near-certain consciousness that it would make a difficult situation for the incumbent and would risk provoking the incumbent??s resignation, which...