Only months after Robert G. Torricelli was forced by ethics issues to abandon his reelection race for the United States Senate in 2002, he resurfaced as a major offstage player in New Jersey politics.

Schneider lost a close reelection race to Democrat Kenny Biermann in November, 2008.

He was first elected mayor in the mid-1990s, and stepped down as mayor in January 2010, after losing a reelection race to Tim Leavitt.

In fact, there is nothing to make an elected official of long tenure and advanced age look forward to the Florida sunshine more than a tough reelection race every two years.

Graves faced a tougher reelection race in 2008 against Democratic nominee and former Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes.

The package could prove difficult to resist for Republicans in tight reelection races.

Bennett, however, says Johnson, "had been forced out of a reelection race in 1968 by outrage over his policy in Southeast Asia.

We've got an incumbent President who's only nine points ahead in a reelection race where, as pathetic as it sounds, the most resounding issues are the escapades and adventures of his daughter-your girlfriend.

Overton attempted to withdraw from reelection race in 1944.

During Holtzman's 1993 reelection race for city comptroller, she faced Assemblyman Alan Hevesi and former Congressman Herman Badillo in the Democratic primary.