Primaries put Republicans on notice

[TomCADem]

Source: LA Times

Reporting from San Francisco and WashingtonRepublicans got a wake-up call this week.

For months, the GOP has been buoyed by the notion that 2010 will be a big year, delivering control of the House and perhaps even the Senate in November. But Tuesday's election results — arguably the best campaign day for Democrats since President Obama's victory in 2008 — suggest the climb back to a majority may be steeper than Republicans thought.

Democrats nominated probably their strongest Senate contender in Pennsylvania, where Rep. Joe Sestak eliminated party-switcher Arlen Specter. In Kentucky's Senate contest, Democrats drew their preferred opponent in state "tea party" founder Rand Paul (though he could be underestimated in the fall as he was this spring.)

Probably the most significant outcome, however, was the Democratic victory in a special House race in rural Pennsylvania. The district — anti-abortion, gun-loving, wary of Washington — is precisely the sort of place Republicans need to prevail to win back the House.


Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-primaries-20100520,0,416329.story

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It seems like the corporate media is surprised that reality is not following the corporate media created narrative that the American public is going to come back to the Republicans in the next election.