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When Rajapaksa decided last November to call an early election to help cash in on his war-hero status with the Sinhalese, he had a surprise waiting for him: anticipating the move, Fonseka submitted his resignation so that he could stand against the incumbent as the common opposition candidate.

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But one of the things I've learned is that apparently it matters if a new product or service is more expensive than the incumbent, or cheaper than.

If prosecutors were a part of creating the problem, it's incumbent on us to create a solution and we can do that using other disciplines that have already done the data and research for us.

In Mexico, from 1929 to 2000, elections were always rigged; the incumbent president would hand-pick his successor.

I was running against a two-term incumbent, and my opponent ran the classic partisan playbook.

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