11.   By law, the party cannot favor one candidate in a primary, but it can begin running ads against the incumbent governor.

12.   Chiles was the only Democrat incumbent governor from a major state who won re-election.

13.   Consider the incumbent governor, Gray Davis, a Democrat.

14.   For an incumbent governor to be in a tie with a challenger at this stage of the election does not bode well for Cellucci.

15.   Fortunately for Lebed, and perhaps unfortunately for the voters, the incumbent governor, Valery Zubov, is also unpopular among workers in Krasnoyarsk.

16.   Four years ago, Bush was the underdog who pulled off a shocker by beating another popular incumbent governor, Democrat Ann Richards.

17.   Gov. Dolph Briscoe, the last incumbent governor to be re-elected, served a two-year term and a four-year term.

18.   He is running against an incumbent governor who has already gathered the support of most Republican Party officials.

19.   Hellon said Salmon would ruin a promising political career by challenging an incumbent Republican governor.

20.   In Alabama and South Carolina, incumbent Republican governors are struggling for survival in the face of Democratic initiatives to create state lotteries to finance education programs.