John M. Broder (NYT) LIBYAN INNUENDO With an uphill battle to keep Senator Conrad Burns, Republican of Montana, from winning a third term, Brian Schweitzer, a Democratic challenger, has found another obstacle to overcome.
The timing of his announcement will give Democrats little time to find a challenger for a seat that has been in Republican hands for at least 18 years.
The Louis Vuitton Cup to find the challenger will be run between the 13th June and 1 September, the length of the elimination series to be decided on the basis of the number of challengers.
In 1998 Mr. Kasparov tried to find a challenger by organizing a match between Mr. Kramnik and Alexei Shirov, a Latvian living in Spain, with the winner to face Mr. Kasparov.
Senator John Kerry coasted to a fourth term, thanks to the inability of Republicans to find a challenger, the first time that has happened in a Senate race in Massachusetts in eight decades.
There is no question that campaign contribution laws should be revised for greater transparency, but the current system with super PACs is clearly better than the old system in which election outcomes were so certain that many parties could not even find a challenger willing to serve as a sacrificial lamb.
Undecided voters tend to find the challenger or not vote at all, having already rejected the incumbent," he wrote.
If Labour MPs want to depose their leader, there's a clear mechanism in the rulebook – find a challenger, and get signatures from 46 MPs for a leadership election.
Burdette found another way into the draw by winning a Challenger tournament in Vancouver.
Now, Republicans say, they just need to find the right challenger.
