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In Wikipedia:
He is the recognized presidential candidate of the Yemeni opposition coalition, a coalition which consists of the Islamist Islah, the Yemen Socialist Party and several smaller parties, in the 2006 presidential election, but was defeated by incumbent president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Recall that with the exception of Cheney, the pattern since 1980 has been that the incumbent vice president becomes that party’s presumptive nominee as soon as the incumbent president’s two terms are up.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The incumbent President is one of the most unpopular ever (although still way more popular than Congress).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
but I think I’ve found someone more incompetent than the incumbent US president.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Scientific development is one of the main themes of the incumbent president’s, Ahmadinejad, term.
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In Wikipedia:
The MPRP fielded the incumbent president Nambaryn Enkhbayar as its presidential candidate.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
“I have participated in the last three conventions when we did not have an incumbent President to re – elect,’ ’ he said,’ ’ but will now follow the custom established during the past 40 years by other Democratic Presidents, including Harry Truman, who only attended the first convention after he left office.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Carlo Ople believes it is part of a ploy to extend the term of the incumbent president.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The calendar process will likely be driven by the party that loses the presidential election, since it’s likely that the incumbent president will face a smooth, low turnout renomination.
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In Wikipedia:
It rejected the official results of the election, according to which incumbent president Amadou Toumani Tour won with about 71 % of the vote, and alleged fraud, unsuccessfully asking the Constitutional Court to annul the election.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The incumbent president Achebe resigned which had left the Black Panther and Storm in power until Achebe’s political party elect a new political leader.
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In Wikipedia:
In January 1968, faced with what was widely considered an unrealistic race against an incumbent President, Senator Kennedy stated he would not seek the presidency.
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In Wikipedia:
The main contenders were incumbent President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki and his former ally Raila Odinga.
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In Wikipedia:
After the election Vincenzo Verrastro, the incumbent Christian Democratic President, was re – elected President.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The incumbent Republican president’s job approval is in the low 30s but is about 10 points higher than that of the Democratic – controlled Congress.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Stephen Harper must be a fan of the movie “Wag the Dog’ ’ because he seems to have adopted the campaign slogan of the incumbent president of that movie in that he’s basically saying’ you don’t change horses in the middle of a race’ on the one hand while trying to get us to still buy into the deregulated free market that’s been working so well for our friends south of the border on the other.
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In Wikipedia:
After the election Mario Leone (Italian Socialist Party), the incumbent President of the Region, formed a new government with the Italian Communist Party.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In my abbreviated travels around all of those Internet tubes today, I happened upon this story about Senator John Kerry that appeared in The Boston Globe, in the vein of? how the mighty have fallen, oh what a shame he’s only appearing at 4H clubs now instead of debates with an incumbent president watched by 63 million people, etc.?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I suppose it might be possible to so’ ‘expose’’ a candidate far more popular personally than either the incumbent President of that candidate’s party or the party itself that the candidate would become unpopular.
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