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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Big night for tea party: O'Donnell wins Delaware Tea party favorite O'Donnell wins GOP Senate primary in Delaware over longtime congressman Virtually unknown a month ago, Christine O'Donnell rode a surge of support from tea party activists to victory in Delaware's Republican Senate primary Tuesday night, dealing yet another setback to the GOP establishment in a campaign season full of them. A second insurgent led narrowly for the GOP nomination in New Hampshire. O'Donnell defeated nine-term Rep. Mike Castle, a fixture in Delaware politics for a generation and a political moderate. Republican Party officials, who had touted him as their only hope for winning the seat in the fall, made clear as the votes were being counted they would not provide O'Donnell funding in the general election campaign. She enters the fall campaign as an underdog to Chris Coons, a county executive who was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. The Republican state chairman, Tom Ross, said recently she "could not be elected dogcatcher," and records surfaced during the campaign showing that the IRS had once slapped a lien against her and that her house had been headed for foreclosure. She also claimed falsely to have carried two of the state's counties in a race against Vice President Joe Biden six years ago. With unemployment high and President Barack Obama's popularity below 50 percent, Republicans said a run of hotly contested primaries this spring and summer reflected voter enthusiasm that will serve the party well in the fall. The GOP needs to win 40 seats to take the House and 10 for control of the Senate. Democrats countered that the presence of tea party-supported Republicans on the ballot on Nov. 2 would prove costly to the GOP. That proposition will be tested in seven weeks' time in Senate races in Nevada, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky — all states where establishment Republican candidates fell in earlier primaries — and now Delaware. In the other marquee race of the night, for New Hampshire's Republican Senate nomination, lawyer Ovide Lamontagne led former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, 40 percent to 38 percent, with votes counted from more than a third of the precincts. Lamontagne, a former chairman of the state Board of Education, campaigned with the support of tea party activists, while Ayotte had a coalition of establishment Republicans, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and other conservatives. The winner will face Democratic Rep. Paul Hodes, who is giving up his seat in the House to run for the Senate. Nearly complete returns from Delaware showed O'Donnell with 53 percent of the vote. "Don't ever underestimate the power of 'we the people,'" she told supporters who cheered her triumph. But Coons issued a statement moments after Castle's defeat. "We cannot let Joe Biden's seat fall into ultraconservative hands," he said. 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 easily won renomination in his first time on the ballot 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 the ballot in the final big night of a primary season marked by recession and political upheaval. The winners had scant time to refocus their energies for midterm elections on Nov. 2. Castle's defeat boosted the number of members of Congress who have lost primaries to eight, five Republicans and three Democrats. But that list 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. The Republican primary in Delaware took a sharp turn for the negative three weeks ago after the Tea Party Express, Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina announced they would come to O'Donnell's aid. Castle, a former two-term governor and a veteran of nearly two decades in the House, was repeatedly assailed as a liberal, a Republican in name only. He and the party responded by challenging O'Donnell's fitness for public office. In an extraordinary move, the state Republican Party launched automated phone calls attacking O'Donnell in the campaign's final hours. The calls feature the voice of a woman who identifies herself as Kristin Murray, O'Donnell's campaign manager in her 2008 unsuccessful Senate campaign, accusing the candidate of "living on campaign donations — using them for rent and personal expenses, while leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands in debt." Biden resigned the seat in early 2009, shortly after being sworn in as vice president, and his successor, Democratic Sen. Ted Kaufman, pledged not to run for a full term. In Wisconsin, businessman Ron Johnson defeated two minor opponents for the Republican nomination to oppose three-term Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in November in what polls show is a tight race. Johnson has said he will spend millions of his own money to finance his campaign through Election Day. In New York, Democratic Attorney General Andrew Cuomo faced no opposition for the party's nomination for governor, and he will be the prohibitive favorite in the fall for an office his father held for three terms. Political novice Carl Paladino, a wealthy developer who enjoyed tea party support, defeated Rep. Rick Lazio for the Republican nomination. Lazio angled for the conservative nomination and a spot on the November ballot anyway. In Maryland, former Republican Gov. Bob Ehrlich won the nomination for a rematch against the man who ousted him from office in 2006, Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley. In Wisconsin, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker defeated former Rep. Mark Neumann for the Republican nomination for governor. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett won the Democratic nomination. Rangel's principal challenger for the nomination in his Harlem-based district was Adam Clayton Powell IV, a state assemblyman whose father Rangel defeated 40 years ago. In the decades since, Rangel rose to become chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, with enormous power over taxes, trade, Medicare and more, but Democrats forced him to step aside from that panel while he battles ethics charges. He is accused of accepting several New York City rent-stabilized apartments, and omitting information on his financial disclosure forms. He's also accused of failing to pay taxes from a rental property in the Dominican Republic, and improperly soliciting money for a college center to be named after him. He has vowed to fight the charges, and faces an ethics committee trial, possibly after the elections. A second New York Democratic incumbent, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, won easily despite a spirited challenge. Rhode Island had a rare open seat in its two-member House delegation, following the decision of Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy to retire. Providence Mayor David Cicilline, who is openly gay, defeated three rivals for the Democratic nomination. Source: AP News
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Because Tea Party backed Republican candidates won and Republican Party backed candidates didn't.
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I looked at O'Donnel's web site and concluded that she is a typical republican on the issues. She agrees with barack Obama on all the big issues - war, heavy taxation she favors, torture she will not oppose so she supports it, same with police state issues, she loves war. she says she's going to balance the budget with budget cuts, meaning services to the domestic population who pays the taxes are going to be cut to protect the war spending and the debt spending. Her differences with Obama are very small and marginal. She is a very typical republican.
Did she come out against the UN Moon Treaty? If not, that means that she supports it. Did she come out explicitly against midget porn? If not, that means she supports that too. Heck bro, did she come out, specifically, against poisoning and cooking babies? If not, that means she supports that...TOO!
derivatives trade is a very major issue. did you comprehend that the volume of derivatives trade is ten times our gdp? it was stated in major papers like Bloomberg that derivatives trade was a prime cause of the $20+ trillion in bailouts that have occurred. tea party people have said they're opposed to those bailouts. Just in the last 2 months prominent legislation was passed on 'financial reform'. In that law derivatives trade was legalized through 2022. any reasonable person interested in our nation's welfare would see that this issue is important and expect all of the politicians to comment on it prior to election so that the people know where they stand. Suicide is good I guess. i'm out of step. I should go along. these issues, derivatives trade and the bailouts, these represent suicide for our nation. I guess it is not important enough to expect them to speak on though. my tag line comes from Psalm 137 where a nation that is enslaved to a kingdom named Babylon is described. that is our nation. We are ruled by a small clique that has no sympathy for us, does not care for our values, is actively working against us even. we don't even have people in the mass media willing to discuss these issues. Back in the late 1970's CIA officials testified under oath publicly before congress that they were taking over our mass media and having great success at it. This is why we're so stupid and we don't even see that these derivatives are death to our prosperity and our freedoms both. People seem frequently to only be able to comprehend and consider ideas and facts first given to them by the television or the mass media. Our citizens themselves understand they are walking 'off the reservation' if they go outside of that thought box framed for them by the mass media. This O'Donnell lady is as different from other republicans as Barack Obama is different from bush republicans. no real difference.
I was attempting to demonstrate to you the fallacy of attributing motives based on things not said at all. It's easy to do, requires no proof of actual belief regarding the targeted person, and allows all sorts of strange conclusions to be reached. My comment about the UN Moon Treaty demonstrates this. Some people for real get worked up over that treaty. Like big time. And for a myriad of reasons, almost all of them just, right and good. However, when you're talking to an audience whose concern is, say, deregulating the dairy industry, throwing out all kinds of things (or even anything) about the UN Moon Treaty is silly. A campaign has to be focused, concise and concentrate on only a few key themes. Not just for her, for all running politicians. When I sat in an official "seat" in my state's libertarian party in the early 1990's they used to go to all lengths of idiocy debating things like the Moon Treaty, and rarely ever focused on relevant issues to help the candidates. And the candidates, being rudderless, started addressing potential voters with things that frankly they were not focused on, and of course, the candidates always lost. Focused, concise, and perhaps not always in line with what YOU may feel needs emphasized, is what is required. My suggestion, as I have made to you when you've done this in the past, is to write her campaign and ask them if she actually does support the things you're inventing out of whole cloth. Then, you'll not be bearing false witness.
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