I. The office being sought was the office of the US Senator from Ohio. There are two such positions for the state of Ohio. This post was won by Sherrod Brown in 2006. This past election saw Brown, a Democrat, defend his Senate seat against Republican Josh Mandel in a bitter campaign. Every state has two seats in the United States Senate, for a total of 100 seats. Senators serve terms of six years, and this was the only Ohio Senate seat up for election in the 2012 campaign. Sherrod Brown was the incumbent with Josh Mandel as the challenger. Brown won the seat in 2006, when he defeated the two-term Republican senator Mark DeWine (UPI, 2006). Brown was nominated to run for a second term. The challenger is the race was Republican Josh Mandel. Mandel was and is once again the serving Treasurer for the state of Ohio. In March, 2012, he won the GOP primary race against five other challengers for the right to contest the Senate seat against Brown. Mandel was the best-known of the six challengers, and had strong backing as a "Tea Party" candidate (Guillen, 2012). Brown came into the race with a wealth of experience. Prior to his successful Senate bid in 2006, Brown served in the US House of Representatives, as the Ohio Secretary of State and when challenger Mandel was exiting his mother's womb Sherrod Brown was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. Not only did the two candidates differ significantly in terms of experience and qualifications but there were distinct
The other candidates were Bob Graber, a Baughman Township trustee; Jerry Herman, a member of the Wayne County Board of Health; Ben Imhoff, a former Milton Township trustee; Stuart Mykrantz, former executive director of the Wayne County Humane Society who ran against Carmichael in the primary; Don Sweigert, Rittman’s fire chief; and Wright, who recently retired from the Ohio State University system.
The case involves Stephen Spoonamore, who is seeking to run as an unaffiliated candidate for state representative in District 1. Ron Amstutz is term-limited and cannot run again. Republican Scott Wiggam prevailed in the March primary, and he is definitely on the ballot.
Throughout all levels of American politics incumbents running for reelection have a huge and systematic advantage over their challengers. In this paper, the incumbency advantage will be examined through the lens of James “Jim” McDermott’s continual reelection in Washington’s 7th Congressional District and Sharpe James, the longtime mayor of Newark. James’ incumbency advantage is especially interesting in the context of 2002 mayoral campaign, where he was nearly unseated by Cory Booker. Both McDermott and James served their constituents for over 30 years and developed sizable incumbency advantages, though in some cases they were used in different ways. Looking at the differences demographically between Newark and Washington’s 7th Congressional District can be striking, but if instead the incumbency advantage is considered, the similarities are wide reaching and fascinating. In this paper, six major elements of incumbency advantage will be looked at: name recognition, party advantage, redistricting, constituency service, focus on candidates and special incumbent privileges.
Senator Royce West, who is a Democrat, was able to win election in my district because of many factors. One of the factors that influenced the
As for Precinct 3 Commissioner Republican candidates, voters have a choice between two candidates who have experience in what might be considered unconventional and diverse scenarios that don’t include having held an elected office or working as a county
Which makes sense considering he had already dipped his toes in this district in the previous election only to lose to Rosen. There is another republican candidate who has rumored to have show interest in the house seat is Cresent Hardy. A Las Vegas city councilman Stavros Anthony has also been spreading interest in either the third or fourth congressional districts. Currently there are no democrats that have said they would run or have there been any rumors that have come out.
Van Buren served two terms in the New York Senate (1812-1820). Then he was elected the United States senate
Thad Cochran has had a decent success in elections. He has won every election he has participated in for the representation in the U.S. House of Representative and the Senate. However, he did have a major defeat when he ran against his Mississippi Senator colleague, Trent Lott, in 1996 for the Senate Majority Leader; he lost 44 to 8 (Hawkings
He represented House District 70. After completing 10 years in the House of Representatives, he was elected to the Texas State Senate where he represented Senate District 8 in both Collin and Dallas counties.
A must be correct, because Andrew Jackson was elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee in 1823. He was very popular with his constituents in Tennessee. His fellow politicians in Washington D.C., however, were often appalled by his impulsive personality.
actually elected as an alternate congressman on a Liberal Party slate in his home department of
He’s chosen another former Republican governor as a running mate, one with fundraising bona fides, and is seen by many as the great tan hope of the Libertarian Party, a man who, as Johnson recently described himself to a crowd of the faithful, might be able to take “your weekly meeting that’s occurring in the tree house” and move it to an auditorium.
Patrick Murphy, Democrat, is a congressman challenging Marco Rubio’s Florida Senate seat. Marco Rubio is advantaged, both by incumbency and his presidential campaign. As an incumbent, Rubio should have an advantage over Murphy for numerous reasons. John Sides et al. succinctly explains how incumbents have more campaign and political experience,
One of the Indiana Senators is a trustee and one is a delegate. Todd Young is definitely a delegate because he takes the idea of others and records them the formulates his own opinion and acts upon them. Joe is a trustee because he takes all
Senator Portman has a record of 27 missed out of 1678 roll call votes. This makes his missed average of 1.6% which is the same as with the median of 1.5% among senators currently serving. His key issues are creating jobs for small businesses from the government. He's standing on the fact that Washington’s spending which adds to the nation’s debt of trillions of dollars affecting generations to come. Focus on energy reduction and the energy process, protecting national security and creating jobs on the home front. He is a strong 2nd Amendment supporter voting to protect the Constitutional rights of Ohioans. Not a supporter of Obamacare believing that it needed to be repealed and replace with a plan that improves health care. A firm position on pro-life and the National Right to