{"id":184456,"date":"2012-04-25T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/04\/25\/oh-yeah-there-were-primaries-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T00:31:00","slug":"oh-yeah-there-were-primaries-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/04\/25\/oh-yeah-there-were-primaries-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Yeah, There Were Primaries Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually there were 5, and Romney won them all.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting however were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/holden-longest-serving-congressional-member-in-pennsylvania-loses-democratic-primary\/2012\/04\/24\/gIQAzlEjfT_story.html\">2 Congressional races in Pennsylvania<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>U.S. Rep. Tim Holden, Pennsylvania\u2019s longest-serving congressman, lost his re-election bid in the Democratic primary, while Rep. Mark Critz beat fellow Democratic incumbent Rep. Jason Altmire in another contest that shook up the state\u2019s House delegation.<\/p>\n<p>Newly-configured congressional district lines put in place by the Republican-controlled state Legislature affected the dynamics in each closely-watched race.<\/p>\n<p>Holden, who was elected to Congress in 1992 and was one of its conservative, so-called Blue Dog Democrats, lost Tuesday to personal injury attorney Matt Cartwright, who spent nearly $400,000 in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to assess his victory, Cartwright said \u201cIt\u2019s a combination of things, number one, the redistricting, and number two, my own core political beliefs are a much better fit for the new district.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only bad news in these two elections is that Critz and Altmire could not both lose.<\/p>\n<p>Still Critz is a <b>bit<\/b> less bad than Altmire.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, as an aside, if you are considering supporting Democratic Congressional candidates this cycle, take Howie Klein&#8217;s advice, and don&#8217;t take a DCCC endorsement for granted, particularly since <a href=\"http:\/\/downwithtyranny.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/dccc-not-friend-of-working-families-not.html\">its head this cycle is former Blue Dog Steve Israel<\/a>.&nbsp; (You can see examples of their hacktacular calls at the link)<\/p>\n<p>We need fewer of these right wing pukes in congress, not more, and most of the DCCC&#8217;s red to blue targets are faux Dems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually there were 5, and Romney won them all. What is interesting however were 2 Congressional races in Pennsylvania: U.S. Rep. Tim Holden, Pennsylvania\u2019s longest-serving congressman, lost his re-election bid in the Democratic primary, while Rep. Mark Critz beat fellow Democratic incumbent Rep. Jason Altmire in another contest that shook up the state\u2019s House delegation. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}