[kuma]

I don't agree.

Hayworth isn't out of the running yet. There is an article on FR about over 150,000 or more ballots still needing to be counted and Hayworth is only 5,000 behind.

Santorum's loss isn't about his conservative ideals. The Dem who won against him ran pro-gun/pro-life and on his dead Daddy's name who was once a very conservative Governor. This was also during our Governor race and the (R)'s ran a non-campaign. Philly, Gov Rendell's home turf, re-elected him and those votes carried over to Casey. PA voters didn't vote against a conservatism but against the (R).

The Allen race I don't know enough about.

[rabscuttle385]

Allen fumbled the macaca remark and got caught in the Webb of mud-slinging and personal attacks.

Plus, Northern Virginia (especially the parts inside the Beltway) and Charlottesville...are rabidly left-wing now.

[incredulous joe]

The Washington Post took out Allen. The macaca gaffe and the issue of his grandfather being a Jew (coverage of this was skewed that he was ashamed of it when he did not actually know about his Jewish ancestry) was screamed from the front page for weeks leading up to the election. While the issue of Webb's salacious fiction was buried, along with his admission of having used the "N" word.

It's what amounted to a couple million dollars worth of the most prominently placed advertising that any candidate could have wished for - and all for FREE! And certainly well worth 7,000 votes.

Oh, well,...like Hugh Hewitt says; "If it ain't close they can't cheat."

[libertylover76]

Sorry, it doesn't wash. Rick Santorum was clearly and indisputably one of our most idealogically pure Senators. He lost by 18%!!

No one in Pennsylvania was confused about his conservatism yet he lost by 800,000 votes. That wasn't an endorsement of his opponent's dead father but a rejection of principled conservatism when it was tied to the debacle in Iraq.