The Arlen Specter Election Results Aren’t Likely The Results He Desired
The Arlen Specter election results were closely watched in the Pennsylvania election results of the primary race for Senate candidates. Last year, Arlen Specter switched to the Democrats after decades as a Republican. Some took it as a stab in the back, and others believed it was because Republicans had gotten too fanatical to keep moderates in the fold. It was also suggested he moved because he wasn’t likely to win another election to the US Senate, which turned out to be true. Regardless of the quick cash that may have been donated to his campaign, it all came to naught.
Source for this article: Arlen Specter election results are not in his favor
Arlen Specter election results aren’t good for him
There has been something of a wave of anti-establishment mentalities lately, and this translates to a lot of incumbent office holders getting shown the door. A 30 year Senate career has ended and Rep Joe Sestak is the new Democratic candidate for the open Senate seat for Pennsylvania, as a result of the Arlen Specter election results.
More on the horizon
This isn’t the actual election, just the primaries. Sestak, despite winning the Democratic primary, still has the final Pennsylvania election results to get through before he is installed as a senator. He still has to defeat the Republican candidate, Pat Toomey. According to CNN, there was some back and forth about whether anyone should actually challenge Specter, and Sestak decided he didn’t care and ran as the underdog anyway, and emerged victorious as the Democratic candidate.
The midterm primaries are open season on incumbents
Getting rid of incumbents is becoming the theme for this year. Fewer people are satisfied with the job government is doing, and they want new blood. Other primaries had similar outcomes. In the Republican primary in Kentucky, Rand Paul, son of Texas Representative Ron Paul defeated Ted Grayson, the Kentucky Secretary of State. Grayson had been endorsed by Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, but that wasn’t enough to keep the son of the uber-popular Libertarian down. In Arkansas, incumbent Senator Blanche Lincoln is in a fight with Lt Gov Bill Halter for the Democratic candidacy, and will have a second runoff election soon.
Article resources
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/19/preston.primaries.analysis/