Sentences with phrase «favors big incumbents»

Not exact matches

State elections remain uncompetitive, with the current rules favoring incumbents with big campaign chests over new challengers.

Not quite sure how it is «heating up» when the challenger to an incumbent who is very popular in a district that favors Democrats has a negative campaign account balance and recently lost a bid for statewide reelection (and whose big victory was in 1994 — the year that Republicans could have nominated a French pornographer and still won with a few points to spare).

But Kayla McGannon, the director of advocacy for Stand for Children Colorado, said that while backing candidates who supported SB 191 was a «big priority» for the group, it also favored incumbents or challengers who shared the organization's broader views of education policy, not just on teacher effectiveness.

Price Fixing favors incumbents, unless they screw up big time.