Incumbents Laura Biskaduros and Esteban Mendoza did not take out papers);
First Circuit Public Defender, where
incumbent James Owens faces Bruce A.
GOP
incumbent Bruce Hanna was leading Sara Byers, 58 percent to 40 percent in House District 7, which includes south Lane County.
In the Antelope Valley Joint Union High School District,
incumbent Donita Winn and challenger Lee D'Errico held the first and second places, respectively, over James Shanbrom for two at-large school board seats.
Peter Hankwitz, "the only openly gay male Republican running for Congress in this election," is trying to unseat Democratic
incumbent Brad Sherman in California's 27th district.
The race was decided not so much on the public's nascent impressions of the challenger, but on their dissatisfaction with the
incumbent.
First Ward Alderman Jesse Granato went into this year's election attempting to do what has become a common first step for
incumbents in local aldermanic campaigns: eliminate the competition.
air markets, found little evidence of any practices by major
incumbent carriers against smaller new entrants that could be deemed predatory.
Accurately measuring how
incumbent spending leads to votes is of obvious importance.
The simple truth is that campaign contributors respond to high
incumbent reelection rates more than cause them.
We argue that these researchers counterintuitive findings are the result of using models which do not adequately correct for the simultaneous determination of the election outcome and campaign contributions, and which do not include an electoral check on
incumbent behavior.
