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'Anti-Incumbent Rage'? Where's the anti-incumbent rage?
Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:01 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:Many pundits hailed this election year as the Year of Anti-Incumbency, but that phenomenon barely surfaced in Pennsylvania’s legislative races in Tuesday’s primary. All but one of the 28 contested House and Senate incumbents seeking re-election came away winners. Where was the anger that Pennsylvanians were spewing last fall over the 101-day budget impasse? Where were the people who in poll after poll give the General Assembly low approval ratings? Where was the kick-all- the-bums-out spirit that tea party activists incited? How in the world could two incumbent lawmakers who face charges in the attorney general’s Capitol corruption investigation — state Reps. Bill DeWeese and John Perzel — survive an election when another candidate was on the ballot? Turnout was one factor that has been cited. “A lot of people think their vote doesn’t make a difference and no matter who they send, they get the same result” so they don’t vote, Madonna said. Three out of four registered voters were no-shows on Tuesday. From her stops at polling places on Tuesday, Rep. Sheryl Delozier, R-Cumberland, said she didn’t sense any overwhelming anti-incumbent venom. Rather, she said voters expressed frustration and concern about transportation and pension funding problems facing the state, as well as questions about whether the state will pass a budget on time this year. “Will that frustration mount if it’s late and will that have an effect on the outcome in November — I don’t know,” she said.
Quote:Leering imbecile and national embarrassment Jim Gibbons has certainly made his mark on Nevada — what with the bungled rape attempts and death threats and public divorce war with his hilarious wife and the Mexican slaves hidden in his basement and his inept corruption and basically not showing up to work for his entire term .
Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:10 AM
BYTEMITE
Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:13 AM
Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:21 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:34 AM
WULFENSTAR
http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg
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