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Showing posts with label Primary election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Primary election. Show all posts

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Primary losses blunt Palin's 'mama grizzly' claws (AP)

Sarah Palin - Bear SkinSarah Palin, image by smiteme via Flickr WASHINGTON — It's been a summer of setbacks for Sarah Palin. Candidate "cubs" endorsed by the Mama Grizzly in Chief have been suffering a recent string of primary election losses.

The Republicans' 2008 vice presidential nominee promised a pack of "mama grizzly" candidates would rise up and defeat Democrats in this November's elections. But office-seekers she supported in Kansas, Wyoming and Washington state lost their primaries despite her high-profile endorsements. And Karen Handel lost her runoff contest for Georgia governor a day after sharing an Atlanta stage with Palin.

Now, Alaska's Senate primary on Tuesday is shaping up as an embarrassing defeat in her own backyard. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is expected to dispatch the challenger Palin has endorsed in the Republican contest.

Palin says it isn't about picking winners.

"Regardless of whether the many candidates I've had the honor of endorsing win or lose this time around, I support them because they boldly shake things up in their primary races," she said in a Facebook message.

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Monday, June 14, 2010

The Alvin Greene Interviews: A TPMtv Original Video (TalkingPointsMemo)

By Rachel Slajda
June 11, 2010
TalkingPointsMemo

Over the past three days, one Alvin Greene from rural South Carolina has captured the popular imagination with his tale of coming from nowhere to capture 60 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.

OK, 'popular imagination' may be going too far. But his story has captured our interest, and that of cable news, in a big way, a way that Greene himself probably wasn't prepared for.

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