what is a "quasi-incumbent"?

Question

it is said that hilary clinton is the quasi-incumbent..i need to no the definition

Answer 1

I think this is some people's way of implying that because her husband was the president, she was sort of in office, too. It's not really accurate, but there ya go.

Answer 2

Say your Senator dies and another guy is put in his place, he becomes a quasi-incumbent. A lot of people are saying that is what will happen with the VP's office before the next election. Cheney will step down (actually just go deeper into his bunker as he continues working on his plans for the Death Star) and W will appoint whoever the GOP candidate for the next election as VP to give him a boost in the polls, let him do a lot of free traveling on the taxpayers dime and get a lot of free press. But honestly, if you were running on the GOP side, would you want your picture taken with Bush all the time?

Answer 3

quasi-reentrant was used to describe CICS code can be consider "reentrant", but, it only true most of the time. Therefore IBM marketing their CICS a quasi-reentrant to get the advantage of being somewhat reentrant.

This is kinda like "highest integrity" among Americans. They are happy with quasi-integrity, not the all-or-nothing standard.

That said, your question is really referencing something that's not really, but have some flavor of it anyhow.

Answer 4

It just means she's not really incumbent, but she is kind of like incumbent in a way because everybody have known her for so long and lot of other candidates are so new/fresh faced.

Answer 5

sounds like a kind of nausea derived from bad eggplant

quasi-incumbent

Answer 6

That is a purely invented word that has no meaning. "Incumbent" is an either-or/on-off siutation; either someone is an incumbent or they are not.