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Shocker in U.S. House 3: Ted Yoho upsets 12-term incumbent Cliff Stearns
Jacksonville.com ^ | August 14, 2012 | Matt Dixon

Posted on 08/15/2012 2:29:21 PM PDT by mdittmar

Cliff Stearns has been in Congress since 1989. On Tuesday, by a less than 800-vote margin, the 12-term incumbent’s career came to an end.

In an Election Day shocker, Gainesville veterinarian Ted Yoho sent Stearns packing in the GOP primary for the 3rd Congressional District, which stretches from Clay County to the Gulf of Mexico.

(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonville.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 112th; fl2012; gopprimary; teaparty; yoho
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21 posted on 08/15/2012 4:54:11 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: libbylu

“large animal vet,”

Yes, but can you really trust a man who likes to stick his arm up a cows...


22 posted on 08/15/2012 5:00:46 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We're an Oligrachy...Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: mdittmar

With all due respect to Rep. Stearns, it’s something I’d like to see more often. No politician should have a “Career,” 24 years in the House is too long for anyone.

Like baby diapers we need to get used to changing them out often. Concerns that Yoho will/will not be as conservative as Stearns are moot. We’ll surely find out before the 2014 primary elections.

We need to re-instill the politicians fear of the voting population. Changing them out with some frequency does that. Will we lose some proven conservatives in the process? Yep. But like baking a cake some eggs must be cracked!


23 posted on 08/15/2012 5:27:16 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry bear formerly known as..........Ursus Arctos Horribilis.)
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To: dfwgator

Yoho Yoho...a tea-partier’s life for me...

DING DING DING....WINNER-WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!!!

Post of the day!!!!


24 posted on 08/15/2012 5:49:23 PM PDT by Kolath
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To: mdittmar

Yoho, West, DeSantis, etc. will all win House seats handily come November. Connie Mack will wipe out Democrat Senator, Bill Nelson with ease. and....Obama/Biden will lose Florida, big time as well as the entire tier of Southern States.


25 posted on 08/15/2012 5:58:05 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: Steely Tom

Yeah, dumbases from the MSM who couldn’t tie their own shoes are going to tell me what to do how to act or what to think?


26 posted on 08/16/2012 3:05:41 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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