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notesdev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 03:38 AM
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Primaries show anti-DC, anti-establishment mood
WASHINGTON – With the electorate's intense anger reverberating across the country, this is all but certain: It's an anti-Washington, anti-establishment year. And candidates with ties to either better beware.

Any doubt about just how toxic the political environment is for congressional incumbents and candidates hand-picked by national Republican and Democratic leaders disappeared late Tuesday, when voters fired Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, forced Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln into a run-off in Arkansas and chose tea party darling Rand Paul to be the GOP nominee in Kentucky's Senate race.

"People just aren't very happy," Ira Robbins, 61, said in Allentown, Pa.

With anyone linked to power, it seems.

Taken together, the outcomes of primaries in Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Kentucky — following voter rejections of GOP Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah and Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan in West Virginia — provided further evidence that voters are in the mood to choose outsiders over insiders.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100519/ap_on_el_ge/us_primary_rdp
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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-19-10 04:05 AM
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1. Anti-DLC on the Dem side, that's for sure ~
Hope we can send Jane Harman home in June also and replace her with a real progressive.
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