From SFGate:
ELECTION 2010
Specter ousted in primary, Paul win stuns GOP
David Espo, Associated Press
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
(05-19) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- Party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter fell to a younger and far less experienced rival in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, and political novice Rand Paul rode support from Tea Party activists to a Republican rout in Kentucky on Tuesday, the latest jolts to the political establishment in a tumultuous midterm election season.
In another race with national significance, Democrat Mark Critz won a special House election to fill out the term of the late Democratic Rep. John Murtha in southwestern Pennsylvania. The two political parties spent roughly $1 million apiece hoping to sway the outcome there, and highlighted the contest as a possible bellwether for the fall when all 435 House seats will be on the ballot.
On the busiest night of the primary season to date, Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln was forced into a potentially debilitating runoff election against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in her bid for nomination to a third term. The run-off will be June 8. Rep. Taken together, the evening's results were indisputably unkind to the political establishments of both parties - with more contested primaries yet to come, particularly among Republicans.
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6 comments:
When I read Brooks, I KNEW you'd have a rebuttal. Well done, my friend.
Shit. I commented on the wrong post. Should be under "The Plutocrat's Beat Poet."
I remember the Reagan years as a time when religious fanatics could and did walk right into womens' clinics and gun women down, or lob bombs through the door. I believe they called that Morning in America. The womens' press reported the killings. The mainstream press never denied them. They just didn't consider them newsworthy.
Sorry. That comment above was meant for the David Brooks post below this one.
Specter downed by single ballot, cast by lone voter.
your photo is great!
--jean m
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