He moves on to the general election against a Democratic challenger.

For the first time since 1998, faced a Democratic challenger.

"And in the general election, he would benefit by having more Democratic challengers go at each other."

He won with 91% of the vote over his Democratic challenger.

He has turned back one Democratic challenger after another since the early 1980's.

He had no primary opponent and beat the Democratic challenger in the general election.

He has won his recent elections with a large majority over the Democratic challenger.

So what's with all the Democratic challengers building ties there?

The last time around, in 1996, he sailed past his Democratic challenger with a winning vote of 69 percent to 31.

The next general election in 2002 had similar results, except there was no formal Democratic challenger.