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Primaries test incumbents' durability, tea party
AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/18/10 | David Espo - ap

Posted on 05/18/2010 12:37:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – Democrats Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania and Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas struggled uncertainly for nomination to new Senate terms Tuesday and tea party activists clashed with the Republican hierarchy in Kentucky in primaries testing anti-establishment anger in both political parties.

In a fourth race with national implications, Republican Tim Burns and Democrat Mark Critz vied to fill out the final few months in the term of the late Rep. John Murtha .. ...

.. Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden in Oregon faced little opposition .. for .. a third full term.

Voters in Pennsylvania and Oregon also selected gubernatorial candidates.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: durability; incumbents; primaries; teaparty
Some Real Change IS coming.

O is ignoring the elections..

1 posted on 05/18/2010 12:37:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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aRlen. this one is for you.

Go Toomey!

Senatorial candidate, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) holds up his thumb as he exits the polling place after casting his ballot in the democratic primary at the Edgmont Township Municipal Building in Gradyville, Pennsylvania, May 18, 2010. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer


2 posted on 05/18/2010 12:39:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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Rand Paul and wife Kelly Paul talk to the media at Briarwood Elementary School after voting in the U.S. Senate Republican primary election in Bowling Green, Kentucky, May 18, 2010. Pennsylvania, Arkansas, and Kentucky are holding primary elections on Tuesday, prior to November 2010 elections. REUTERS/Jake Stevens (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)


3 posted on 05/18/2010 12:40:09 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) exits the polling booth after casting his ballot and answers some questions from the media during his U.S. Senate democratic primary re-election run in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 18, 2010. REUTERS/Bradley Bower (United States - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)


4 posted on 05/18/2010 12:41:31 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: NormsRevenge

So, is Scottish Law on the ascendancy or the decline?


5 posted on 05/18/2010 12:42:31 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Well Well,, What's cooking indeed? A FREsh Pot of TEA.. FoR thee and me..

Greenpeace activists demonstrate before the Petersberg Climate Dialogue climate conference on May 2 near Bonn, western Germany. The US climate negotiator said Tuesday it was politically unrealistic for the next treaty to impose global targets on emission cuts, amid deep divisions among rich and developing nations. (AFP/DDP/File/Clemens Bilan)


6 posted on 05/18/2010 12:47:35 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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