11.   Both candidates won support at first simply because they were not the tax-and-spend Democratic incumbents.

12.   A Democratic incumbent is leading, but the party may have to wait until next week before it celebrates.

13.   A more fastidious Democratic incumbent might have kept the premises freer of crass fund-raising.

14.   A popular Democratic incumbent, Burks was found shot dead in his pickup truck.

15.   Against the odds, Ratliff defeated a short-time Democratic incumbent who had the backing of the Austin lobby.

16.   All other Democratic incumbents who were running also won.

17.   Both Senate Democratic incumbents who were under attack, Byron Sher of Palo Alto and Patrick Johnston of Stockton, won re-election.

18.   But at least one Democratic incumbent who voted against the GOP resolution lost.

19.   But come the fall, can Sand attract enough attention to beat the veteran, well-entrenched Democratic incumbent, Kent Conrad?

20.   But his younger brother, Jeb, hoping for a similar coup in Florida, was turned back by the Democratic incumbent, Lawton Chiles.