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Posted: May 19, 2010

I haven't been around for a while. Just popped in today 'cuz I thought there might be some interesting discussion about yesterday's elections. I am surprised there isn't. All I can say is goodbye and good riddance to Specter and Lincoln! Hello Rand Paul. (You need not read anything into that statement; I simply think some new blood is a good thing.) What do you all think of yesterday's election results? Looks like there will be a lot of incumbents on both sides of that aisle looking for new jobs come november.

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I'm glad that the incumbents are - sm

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being "tossed aside." A message definitely needed to be sent to politicians on both sides of the aisle. I could not help myself but chuckle when Specter lost. Too bad so sad. We do need some new people to vote for and when they are elected, we need to ride their butts and make sure they listen to us. If they don't, they get voted out next time around as well. I'm tired of putting faith in politicians for them to wheel and deal and be deceitful and screw us in the process.

Yeah. I cracked up at Spector yesterday stating how hard he worked for the people of PA - Backwards Typist

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He's very proud that he helped pass the stimulus and health care because the people of PA wanted it...NOT!

I think he's still in shock that he lost, especially by so much. They were neck and neck up to election day.

Now he can sit back and collect his nice fat pension. He'll probably turn into a lobbyist now.

Good riddance!

How is it that you believe - sm

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you have a more accurate read on what the people of PA wanted during the stimulus and HCR processes than the US senator from PA who served longer than anybody else in the state's history? Pennsylvania overwhelmingly supported Obama in the 2008 election, by a 9+ percent margin. As of February 13, 2009, Pennsylvania voters supported the economic stimulus plan by a healthy 6% margin (47% to 41%). Current polling of the Toomey vs Sestak contests reveals dead-heat numbers, but Toomey cannot ride the tide of anti-incumbent sentiment in this race with is 11 years in Congress vs Stepak's 3-year jaunt. Stay tuned on that one.

Consider that only 12% of Pennsylvania's registered voters, and only 24% of its registered Democrats, cast a ballot in the Senate primary (pollster.com). This probably means that the PA senate primary race has virtually no value in terms of being predictive of the eventual outcome in November. In any case, it would seem that Specter's votes were representative of the state's demonstrated views. In other words, he did his job.

The man has Hodgkin's and is 80 years old. Your lobbyist comments are mean-spirited and ill-informed to say the least. I would be willing to bet you did not harbor this same sentiment during the 34 years he served as a republican. Instead of cracking up, why not try cracking open a little hard data before shooting off your mouth to gloat? This predictable knee-jerk holier-than-thou attitude gets a bit tiresome after a while.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_state_surveys/pennsylvania/specter_vote_for_stimulus_hurts_him_back_home

Because I'm from PA, that's why. He didn't do crap for most of the state - Backwards Typist

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He held town meetings and most everyone was against the bailouts and the healthcare plan. Did that phase him? Nope. He KNEW what was best for us. He didn't care what WE, the VOTERS, wanted.

I don't care how old he is or what illness he has. Don't forget, he also had cancer twice.

He only helped the areas of the state that he knew he could count on for votes. He won in only 3 counties. Does that tell you something?

I voted for him in past elections because I thought he would do a good job, because I thought he cared, but he didn't.

I did not vote in this primary because I'm not a democrat and to vote for him in the primary, you have to vote only your party. So... the democrat party left him down, not I.

I wouldn't vote for him in November anyway if he had won the primary because I consider anyone changing their party just to get votes a turncoat, which is what he did.

Sestak is a progressive liberal. I need to bone up on his background before November, which I will before I decide who to vote for;i.e., dem, pub, independent,or libertarian. The candidate values are more important to me than the party.

This coming from the people who - sm

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ruthlessly and mercilessly bash Sarah Palin and make every crude comment about her possible even though she had a very high approval rating as governor of Alaska. More double standards. Ya'll never cease to amaze me.

You guys also fail to realize that some of us have issues with both pubs and crats. This isn't a one political party bashing issue. Both parties have screwed up and both parties are to blame for our current situation.

I find it funny that you refuse to see that he only switched parties because he ticked off so many pub constituents that he knew he wouldn't get re-elected running as a pub....therefore went to crat where he thought he would have an easy in and...oops...was kinda thrown under the bus by Obama and the crats. *chuckle*

Time for some new blood. I'm all for getting rid of McCain too. You might also find it interesting that I hope Palin doesn't run for pres in 2012. So keep bashing and assuming.

There were a lot of people who were suckered into wanting the stimulus. The fear mongering of it has to be done or we will collapse entirely was instilled in the American people. It became a concern when the stimulus didn't show to help much, they couldn't account for the money spent and where it went, etc. There is where the problem lies.

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