61.   He was an economics professor at North Texas State University at Denton when he decided to run for Congress and unseated a longtime Democratic incumbent.

62.   Her only apparent qualification for the job was that she ran and lost against a Democratic incumbent for the state Senate.

63.   He will face Sen. Robert G. Torricelli, the Democratic incumbent, in November.

64.   His real gripe, critics say, is that it would underwrite challenges to the Democratic incumbents who provide his power base.

65.   If those Republican candidates can hang on, that would mean the party needs to defeat only one of several endangered Democratic incumbents to wrest control.

66.   In a series of radio interviews, the president urged voters not to be swayed by harsh attacks on Democratic incumbents.

67.   In a state where the presidential race went down to the wire, the Democratic incumbent held a narrow but consistent lead as precincts continued to report.

68.   In Illinois, state Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, the Republican challenger, still leads the Democratic incumbent, Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, according to a Mason-Dixon Poll.

69.   In contrast, President Clinton found himself the first Democratic incumbent since the rise of soft money.

70.   In Georgia, the Democratic incumbent, Tim Ryles, was defeated by the Republican John Oxendine.