| 11. | These shadowless challengers present the incumbents with a very narrow target.
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| 12. | No incumbent Washington member of Congress has been defeated since 1980.
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| 13. | In that race, too, Tiarht defeated an incumbent Democrat.
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| 14. | The four incumbents either blocked the ad or responded to it.
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| 15. | "Most incumbents still won, " he said.
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| 16. | Well, I must say, not many Republican incumbents lost.
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| 17. | Most of the donors had clear ties to the incumbent senator.
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| 18. | The Socialist incumbent, Francois Mitterrand, took office in 1981.
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| 19. | Incumbent presidents seem fated to bewail the burdens of the law.
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| 20. | And, of course, the big incumbent is Bill Clinton.
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