Posted on 06/05/2010 9:36:59 AM PDT by mdittmar
LOS ANGELES — How angry are Americans? People primed for change vote in 12 states Tuesday in contests that will decide the fate of two endangered Washington incumbents — a two-term senator in Arkansas and a six-term congressman in South Carolina — while setting the stage for some of the races that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill in the fall.
In an Arkansas runoff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln could fall to a fellow Democrat, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, who says "the only way to change Washington is to change who we send there." South Carolina Republican Rep. Bob Inglis is trying to fend off primary challengers who have made the race a referendum on his 2008 vote to bail out up the nation's banking industry.
The political strength of the tea party movement faces tests in several states, particularly in Nevada, where three Republicans are in a bruising fight for the chance to take on Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, in November.
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Primaries from Calif. to SC measure voter intelligence
Not so much WHO as WHAT.
Agree!
I suspect in CA it will be more like displaying the LACK OF voter intelligence, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Unions are running anti Blanche Lincoln ads saying she sent their jobs over seas, is in bed with big oil, took over $1 Mil from them while driving gas prices higher. And that she truly doesn’t live in Arkansas, but Virginia. I think she’s toast.
Union leadership took over $1 Mil from their members and gave it to Blanche Lincoln,whether their members liked it or not.
The anger is not enough until a shake up occurs in November. Getting rid of the current incumbents is one thing, but getting rid of the left-wing ideologues in November is another.
Very true. Just as they did for bambi, they are a 1 party giver.
Hey, even here in California, when we run out of the much vaunted “hope”, we vote for “CHANGE”. P.S. I proudly claim I NEVER voted for Obummer!
And sitting here is one each old man who will not get any sleep on the night of he election. Gonna fix me a pot of coffee, get my pad and pen out, rare back in my bed in my ‘shack in the back’ and take notes and short with joy with each and every win.
Toby
RIGHT ON!!
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