At the same time, incumbents cry foul when they see what startups are getting away with.
The plan notes that due to these practices, only 40 incumbent State legislators have lost their seat since 1970 (even with over 4,000 races), and cites studies that show that over time, incumbents' policy choices do not best reflect their constituents.
In 1993 Olmert left national politics and was elected mayor of Jerusalem, defeating six-time incumbent Teddy Kollek; he was reelected in 1998.
In Newark, Cory Booker is steeling himself to challenge the five-time incumbent Sharpe James in the city's nonpartisan general election on May 9.
In 1990, Senator Bill Bradley, a two-time incumbent, basketball star and Rhodes scholar from Princeton, barely eked out a victory against a challenger who was virtually unknown, Christie Whitman, despite outspending her by more than 10 to 1.
The DMK had previously been allowed to fill the post of communications minister, but since the resignation and subsequent arrest of the one-time incumbent, A. Raja, and the quitting last week of his fellow partisan Dayanidhi Maran, the textiles minister, the party has only one minister left in the cabinet: M.K. Alagiri, in charge of chemicals and fertilisers.
Only a year ago, Peruvians went to the polls to choose a president in an election so clumsily fraudulent that it eventually forced the winner, the two-time incumbent, Alberto K. Fujimori, to desert the country and resign from exile in Tokyo.
But he added this was probably down to Mayor Abe being a two-time incumbent which may not have produced a heated race.
Kirsten was first elected to Congress in 2006, soundly defeating long-time incumbent Republican John Sweeney.
