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Contents 1 Broken Template and Untitled § 2 2002 and 2004 South Dakota Senate races? 3 Job postings? 4 Does this even make sense??? 5 Etymology 6 WINAD

[edit] Broken Template and Untitled §

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	Politics portal v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Politics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  B  This article has been rated as B-Class on the project's quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. Comments: edit  · history  · watch  · purge I believe the following line is debatable, if not incorrect. An election (especially for a legislature) in which no incumbent is running is often called an open seat; because of the lack of incumbency advantage, these are often amongst the most hotly-contested races in any election. In my opinion, open seat elections are hotly-contested mainly because they often occur when there was no previous democratic government. I think the heat has nothing to do with the lack of incumbency advantage. If many agree, perhaps this sentence should be removed. ErikBongers (talk) 12:52, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

The old version had a line saying that: In Peru, incumbents usually receive support from third parties, as terrorits and fairy dealers. That sounded pretty non-sensical to me (terrorists and drug dealer support incumbents in Peru? What?), so I removed it. Feel free to return it if somebody sees a point with it. - Xuenay 22:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC)Xuenay

Section on etymolgy removed. It was simple nonsense - I assume it was some kind of a joke. "Incumbent" is a mediaeval Latin word for the holder of an ecclesiastical office. It is still used in the Church of England.

[edit] 2002 and 2004 South Dakota Senate races?

"However, the 2002 and 2004 South Dakota Senate races disproved the absolute nature of this theory."

I've removed this line. It was at the end of the paragraph on voter first firing the incumbant and then looking at the non-incumbant as an acceptable alternative. I did it because it looked tacked onto the paragraph, was counter to the point of the paragraph thus it would be more proper to have it's own paragraph of counterpoint explanation, didn't cite it's references, and most importantly didn't explain what it meant. People unfamiliar with South Dakota politics would have no idea what was being talked about and I expect that even some who do may have a different opinion on what those races meant. --Don Sowell 16:32, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Job postings?

Browsing some job postings, the job description says "the incumbent is responsible for...", in reference to the person who will be hired to fill the position. Is this usage seen elsewhere? --RealGrouchy 00:59, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Does this even make sense???

"For example, in the 2004 United States presidential election, George W. Bush was the incumbent, because he was the current president. Contents" someone please edit it.. 219.95.57.167 13:52, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology

What the hell is a 'meany'? (Line 1 of etymology) Is it green? And how can you be literally meany?

[edit] WINAD

This whole thing looks like one of those Wikipedia messes where one editor, ignorant of Wiktionary and of WP:WINAD, creates a dictionary entry. Then a whole succession of editors try to spruce it up to make it encyclopedic. If anything, this article should be entitled Incumbency as a political science topic, since that's what the scant encyclopedic content is about. Also, it's pretty pointless to link this from templates like the one that got me here, men's long jump world record succession. The first record-holder enjoyed none of the advantages of incumbency accruing to members of Congress or other elected officeholders. - PhilipR (talk) 23:04, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. I would like to make a motion to move this to Wiktionary and redirect. Full Decent (talk) 21:14, 18 February 2009 (UTC)