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(6/9/10) "Candidates Stand Their Ground on Super Tuesday" (Time)
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 (6/9/10) "Candidates Stand Their Ground on Super Tuesday" (Time)
 |  |  |  | Quote: Candidates Stand Their Ground on Super Tuesday By Jay Newton
People are unhappy. They've been unhappy for a while - through Enron and the dotcom bubble bursting, 9/11, two wars, Katrina. They thought Barack Obama would bring change but few have felt the changes he's wrought: Who can imagine how bad the economy could have gotten sans stimulus? It feels bad enough as it is. Then came the Gulf oil spill. If 2008 was a change election, 2010 promised to be even more so. Incumbents are even more unpopular than they were in 1994, the Washington Post told us. Voters favor newcomers 60% to 32%, Gallup reported. Indeed, voters took out their anger at the polls, electing virtually any yokel who promised change or who railed at the Washington establishment, and sending home four congressional incumbents. The narrative thus far? Throw the bums out.
That is until Super Primary Tuesday. Somewhere along the way, voters on both sides of the aisle re-found their pragmatism. They remembered that viability, not just purity, was also important. In Arkansas, pundits were predicting the demise of two-term conservative Democrat Blanche Lincoln in a run off but voters proved them wrong and Lincoln wrangled a surprise comeback. In Iowa, Republicans bucked the Tea Party trend and gave former four-term governor Terry Branstad another shot at his old job. Likewise, in Virginia's Fifth Congressional District, six Tea Party candidates went home disappointed last night as the establishment Republican, State Senator Robert Hurt, ran away with the nomination beating his closest opponent by more than 20 points.
In fact, a surprising number of establishment candidates survived challenges in a season where Washington's blessing of felt more like a curse. . . ..
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sojourner
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 Re: (6/9/10) "Candidates Stand Their Ground on Super Tuesday" (Time)
If I was a Democrat I wouldn't be too excited about the Lincoln win. My take that that she will be easier to beat in the general election than Bill Halter would.
Many Democrats are upset with Lincoln and will not support her while they might have moved back to Halter.
_________________ There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Adayamo
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 Re: (6/9/10) "Candidates Stand Their Ground on Super Tuesday" (Time)
Second that. She'll lose in November. As for Republicans ... they'll regret Sharron Angle. Giving her the nomination will make it a lot more easy for Reid to survive another six years.
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sojourner
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 Re: (6/9/10) "Candidates Stand Their Ground on Super Tuesday" (Time)
You are probably right. But after Sue Lowden stepped in it with that chickens for medical care thing, I don't think they had a strong candidate. Here's hoping that Angle gets a lot of support with endorsements and $. I have mixed emotions about her but I really would like to see Reid defeated.
_________________ There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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KWayne
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 Re: (6/9/10) "Candidates Stand Their Ground on Super Tuesday" (Time)
 Not to sound cold, but Nevadans will be the one's to regret. If high unemployment and elitist mentality is to their taste then Mr.Reid shall give them a feast!
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