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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: ( · history · · refresh) I believe the following line is debatable, if not incorrect.
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) |
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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)
