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Primary election day in Pennsylvania yesterday, and a whole bunch of incumbents -- 14 in all -- were swept out of office including the top two Republicans in the state Senate; the first time that a legislative leader was voted out of office in 40 years.
Maybe some folks will say this indicates a tidal shift nationally, but that may be wrong. There apparently was a lot of voter angry over a pay raise the lawmakers gave themselves last year.
There were a couple of congressional races worth peeking at yesterday. In Kentucky, Andrew Horne, a veteran of the war in Iraq, lost to a Democrat political columnist. In Pennsylvania, another war vet -- Patrick Murphy -- won the Democratic nod in a congressional swing district.
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