The power of incumbency.

• Position: Stateline - Brief Article

Ed Case, a former state legislator, beat 43 other candidates with 43 percent of the ballots, to win a special election in Hawaii and become the final member selected to the 108th Congress. His advantage? Maybe it's the fact that he had been an incumbent for five weeks after easily winning a special election to finish the term of U.S. Representative Patsy Mink, who died...