81.   Lincoln Almond, the Republican incumbent, who was unopposed, will face a rematch against former state Sen. Myrth York, a Democrat.

82.   Many conservative and moderate Republican incumbents and challengers have called, begging her to campaign in their states.

83.   McCarthy beat a Republican incumbent who opposed gun control.

84.   Mel Carnahan, a Democrat, was challenging John Ashcroft, the Republican incumbent, for his Senate seat in a hard-fought, often bitter race.

85.   Mary Wilson, a delegate from Orlando, Fla., is the kind of contributor most Democratic challengers to Republican congressional incumbents can only dream about.

86.   McCall described Pataki, the two-term Republican incumbent, as a do-nothing governor who had failed to solve a list of problems.

87.   North Carolina also saw a slight boost that year, a factor in the election of Democratic Sen. John Edwards over a Republican incumbent.

88.   Nearly identical advertisements are airing in South Dakota, where Rep. Tim Johnson, a Democrat, is running against the Republican incumbent, Sen. Larry Pressler.

89.   None of the other three Republican incumbents in the congressional delegation faced tough opponents.

90.   Now, as the Republican incumbent crisscrosses the state seeking re-election, he is looking out on a political landscape that is dramatically different.