Multiple Choice Practice: The Incumbent Advantage
While we’ve focused in this unit on presidential elections, we will study Congressional election in the next unit. Let’s see how well Ethan can answer this question about the advantages incumbents have in Congressional elections. Many of the same factors hold true for incumbents in Presidential elections as well.
What was historic about the 2008 election and incumbents?
For the first time since 1928 there wasn’t an incumbent president or vice-president running. Both candidates were newcomers.
