incumbent

Examples of incumbent in the following topics:

• The Power of Incumbency

  • The incumbent is the existing holder of a political office.
  • It is usually used in reference to elections where races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbents.
  • However, there exist scenarios in which the incumbency factor itself leads to the downfall of the incumbent.
  • There are situations in which the incumbency factor leads to the downfall of the incumbent.
  • This is known as the anti-incumbency factor.

• Candidates for Congressional Elections

  • On the other hand, there is a historical pattern that the incumbent president's party loses seats in elections that are held in the middle of a presidential term.
  • As the redistricting commissions of states are often partisan, districts are often drawn which benefit incumbent .
  • An increasing trend has been for incumbents to have an overwhelming advantage in House elections, and since the 1994 election, an unusually low number of seats has changed hands in each election.
  • The majority of vulnerable seats are held by Republican incumbents, many of whom are freshmen who were swept into office in the Republican wave of 2010.
  • Additionally, Democrats only have 10 seats to defend in 2016, while 24 Republican incumbents are up for re-election.

• Political Advertisements

  • The growth of cable television networks heavily influenced political advertising in the 1992 election between incumbent President George H.
  • Web-based advertising was easily distributed by both incumbent President George W.

• Television Debates

  • These debates, between Governor Jimmy Carter, the Democratic nominee, and Republican incumbent President Gerald Ford, also demonstrated their dramatic effect.

• Cultivating Access

  • This helps incumbent members cope with the substantial amounts of time required to raise money for reelection bids; one estimate was that Congresspersons had to spend a third of their working hours on fundraising activity.

• Types of Elections

  • Usually, a by-election occurs when the incumbent has resigned or died.

• The 2010 Elections

  • Indeed, many Republicans ran on a promise to repeal the act and beat incumbent Democrats who had voted for it.

• The Cabinet

  • The President of the United States, an elected official, appoints incumbents to these positions, most of them with the advice and consent of the Senate.

• Print Media

  • Recent research has examined the effects of a newspaper's closing on the reelection of incumbents, voter turnout, and campaign spending.

• Political Parties

  • Regulation of political parties may manifest as a crackdown on or repression of all opposition parties or certain parties who promote ideals that run counter to the general ideology of the state's incumbents or possess membership by-laws which are legally unenforceable.