Tuesday voting
Far more knowledgeable people will be discussing results today. but here are some pointers.
Poilitics Dailey has a short note on yesterday’s primaries:
…Kentucky Republicans struck the first blow by choosing political newcomer Rand Paul as their Senate nominee. Paul, an ophthalmologist and Tea Party favorite, defeated Secretary of State Trey Grayson, who had been championed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
In a Pennsylvania contest that both parties promoted as a precursor to the midterm elections this fall, Republicans suffered a blow to their plans for taking over Congress. Democrat Mark Critz, a top aide to the late Rep. John Murtha, defeated Republican businessman Tim Burns in a special election to finish Murtha’s term representing the working-class Johnstown-area district.
In Arkansas, moderate Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln was trying to hold off a netroots-fueled primary challenge from Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. Neither cleared 50 percent of the vote Tuesday night, sending the pair into a June 8 runoff election. The winner will face GOP Rep. John Boozman, a rancher and ophthalmologist whose late brother, Fay Boozman, lost to Lincoln in 1998.
Specter was the third incumbent to lose his job this season, following Utah Sen. Bob Bennett’s failure to get the GOP nomination in his state and Democratic Rep. Robert Mollohan’s primary loss in West Virginia…
What’s with the conservative/ophthalmologist link? I’m friendly with another in my area and he too has a serious conservative perspective. I know that they do try to make others see more clearly, but I don’t think there is any link in that effort to clear minded ideology.
And what ever a libertarian may be, can Rand Paul be any worse than a guy supported by the duplicitous Mitch McConnell? Tell me daddy didn’t name him after Ayn, please.
The world is a better place now that lying p.o.s. scumbags like Arlen Spector and Bob Bennent have been thrown out of office.
Your probably right about the Rand Paul’s namesake, but I still think he and his daddy are the last best hope for the American system. In your face Mitch McConnell.
Cursed, more throwing out of office to follow! I am sorry that Murtha’s seat did not change. Electing his CoS just ensures continuance of the politics and ethics of one of our most corrupt Congress critters.
In a district McCain carried in 2008 and the GOP apparatchiks characterized as “must win”. So the democrats are now 7 for 7 in special elections for house seats since January 2009.
This massive wave of GOP victories is still building…. somewhere….
Which may end up being the last laugh you get from his victory last night. In a PPP poll published yesterday only 40% of Grayson’s supporters said they would support Paul. 43% said they explicitly would not.
AS, and 0 for 1 for Senate special elections.
What is interesting is that Critz ran as a conservative, against the Obama/dem policies to get elected. Is this the model for building confidence? Is this the Dem model for winning?
I doubt the voters will continue to accept running as a conservative then voting other wise behavior?
So you’re arguing that the GOP resurgence started in Mass. in Nov? Really? Even after the guy Cheney endorsed in KY Senate primary lost to a tea partying anti Iraq war candidate? Hows that going anyway? lol
“The peasants are revolting. Yes they certainly are.” attributed to Groucho Marx
Anyway, the next congress should be interesting as it will probably have more lunatics and fewer liars. Whether it can legislate is a different issue.
I do think that if Randall Paul’s ideas are anything like his father’s (see http://www.ronpaul.com/2010-01-03/ron-paul-on-healthcare-yemen-ben-stein-and-israel/#comments ) the Tea Partiers are going to find that he is nowhere near crazy enough to meet their expectations.
AS, huh?!? Are you arguing with yourself? I never said anything similar to what you state.
Sheesh!
I’m not certain we four contested primary elections create a trend.
Interesting, but a trend?
Let us all get religion and pray hard for a better choice of candidates in the years to come. It will probably take an act of god.
AS,
So your argueing that Democratics can win without lieing about what they actually stand for? If they could, the Republican Party would have been distroyed years ago, and the United States would have long ago shifted to The United Socialist States of America (U.S.S.A)
Also, you seem to think that Democratics are not going to take one of the largest losses of political power moments in our history?
Really?….LoL…Keep dreaming!
There’s revultion and there’s revolution. If you’re a peasant and you don’t push for the latter you are part of the former.
if you think the Republican party isn’t self destructing you’re the one that’s dreaming. Works for me.
Okay probably should have typed self destructing faster.