1.   But the incumbent City Council member, Priscilla Wooten, seems to direct her best skills at political self-preservation.

2.   Croatian state television has intervened in the Bosnian elections by attacking the incumbent Croatian member of the joint Bosnian presidency, Kresimir Zubak.

3.   Fox was the only incumbent House member in the state to lose.

4.   Looser state campaign finance rules make it easier to challenge a governor, they say, while federal rules make incumbent members of Congress much more formidable.

5.   Money from the NRA helped bag four incumbent Democratic House members who had voted for the assault weapon ban.

6.   Not a single anti-abortion incumbent member of Congress was defeated for re-election.

7.   Our work has revealed that when Americans reject incumbent members of Congress, they reject moderates more often than they reject incumbents who are more consistently liberal or conservative.

8.   Rally director Darrell Hampton of Dayton, Ohio encouraged rally attendees to cast votes on Election Day against incumbent members of Congress who support impeachment proceedings.

9.   Stockman is the only incumbent member of Congress from Texas to lose this year.

10.   The selection was announced last week, after the group interviewed many candidates, including incumbent members of Congress from both parties, Rosenker said.