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Given bad choices, which seem to abound, vote against the incumbent.

It's a government that is able to be easily captured by incumbent, monied interests.

I say this is a sign that the incumbent manufacturers are finally adapting to the heat brought on by Korean and Chinese newcomers.

Preferably something that someone else is already paying money for but that the incumbent product is shitty or lacking in some major way.

It will be incumbent upon entities with interests in online perceptions to guard themselves against these kinds of attacks and, should the pros outweigh the cons, engage in them as well.

* Corrupt use in political campaigns by incumbent politicians with access -- obvious.

Skype stepped on the toes of incumbent ISPs' long-distance revenue streams, I wouldn't put it past AT&T to purposefully degrade the quality of Skype calls or even outright deny them from happening.

For all the rhetoric and ideology of free markets our regulatory infrastructure is geared towards incumbents in ways that make it insane to invest in industries that would be creating new jobs now and in the future.

They both bribe incumbent owners/renters/voters with an economically valuable seniority privilege, at the expense of the future and flexibility.

By having a piece of the model devoted to most possible talking points: convention bounces, whether undecideds break for/against the incumbent, effect of the economy, etc., he can claim he's addressed those critics' points, even if the net effect of addressing them is close to nil.

One possibility is that we have reached a point where the barriers to entry in what would be the job creating sectors are being held artificially high by a combination of regulatory capture and a global intellectual property regime that is tilted towards incumbent rights owners and against new entrants.