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Title: Tea party favorite wins Delaware GOP Senate nod
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Published: Sep 14, 2010
Author: msnbc
Post Date: 2010-09-14 21:46:06 by freepatriot32
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Keywords: Tea party, favorite, Christine O
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WASHINGTON — Conservative activist Christine O'Donnell has earned a stunning victory in Delaware's Republican Senate primary. O'Donnell's shocking win over longtime Congressman Mike Castle gives new energy to the tea party movement, which targeted Castle after victories by Republican tea party candidates in the Alaska and Nevada Senate primaries. With 78 percent of precincts reporting, O'Donnell had 54 percent to 46 percent for Castle, a former two-term governor and the longest serving congressman in Delaware history. While attracting enough GOP conservatives to defeat Castle, a leader of Republican moderates in Congress, O'Donnell will have a hard time defeating Democrat Chris Coons in November for the Senate seat vacated by Joe Biden after he was elected vice president. Republican officials said privately before Tuesday's primary that they intended to write off the seat if O'Donnell was victorious against Castle. In New Hampshire, Ovide Lamontagne — also backed by the tea party — had 48 percent of the vote to 34 percent for former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, with ballots counted from 12 percent of the state's precincts. Democratic New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch rolled to renomination for a fourth term, and he will face John Stephen, a former state health commissioner who won the GOP line on the ballot easily. In New York, 40-year veteran Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel faced the voters for the first time since the House ethics committee accused him of 13 violations, most of them relating to his personal finances. In all, five states chose nominees for the Senate, and six more had gubernatorial hopefuls on primary ballots. The winners had scant time to refocus their energies for midterm elections on Nov. 2. So far this year, seven incumbent members of Congress have tasted defeat, four Republicans and three Democrats. And that does not include a lengthy list of GOP contenders who fell to tea party-supported challengers despite having the backing of party officials eager to maximize their gains in November. With unemployment high and President Barack Obama's popularity below 50 percent, Republicans said the primaries reflected an enthusiasm that would serve the party well in the fall, when control of Congress will be at stake.
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#1. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
The GOP backed a mainstream Republican and lost. RINO's are in, globalists are OUT. Bush and McStain are under the bus.
“Ask any Indian nation how it preserves itself. It isn’t by letting anyone and everyone claim to be Indian. There are exceptions, but they are not the rule.” -- Eric Holder
And quod I: "Buahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" Thus spoke SonOfLibertyThustra. Yes, quod is correct, it is old/middle English.
"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC
She may have won the Republican primary but the Republican party is not going to support her. ------- I live in Delaware and I can tell you why. There is no swing vote here. If the DEMs field a popular candidate without splitting the vote then the majority DEMs will win. There's nothing a Pub could say to steal votes from a popular DEM candidate. The only way a PUB can win at all is if the DEMs field a lame candidate versus a popular PUB. They don't ever seriously fight over the governor, our one US House of Representatives or two US Senate seats because the winners are decided in advance by the time the primaries are over. The popular (and therefore pre-selected) candidates are opposed by tokens from the other party. This is how Dupont likes things to be. And a wave of anti-incumbency is fine for the rest of America but not DE where people vote for their party or vote for their govt checks. "Principles are for chumps" who don't receive govt checks or otherwise derive benefit from the winning candidates.
They said the same thing about Massachusetts .
My joy over McCain's defeat, is offset by my disappointment over hObama's victory.
#2. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
defeating Democrat Chris Coons
#3. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
#4. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
They're throwing her under the bus.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Carl Sagan.
#5. To: Armadillo (#4)
She may have won the Republican primary but the Republican party is not going to support her. They're throwing her under the bus.
#6. To: HOUNDDAWG (#5)
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