Coast to Coast Primary Results
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-06-09/coast-coast-primary-results
Former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina with members of the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board on April 2nd, 2010. Fiorina won last night's California Republican Senate Primary.
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Voters in twelve states decide key Senate, Governor and Congressional primary races. Tuesday's election results, what they reveal about anti-incumbent attitudes and prospects for both parties in this fall's general election.
Guests
Amy Walter
Editor in Chief of National Journal’s Hotline.
Ron Elving
Washington editor for NPR.
Chris Cillizza
is managing editor of PostPolitics.com and author of "The Fix" on washingtonpost.com.
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I was surprised that Blanche Lincoln won. I guess Chris C must be really loving this :)
Dr N
I'm curious what percentage of Bill Halter's campaign donations came from MoveOn.org as compared with money he received from labor unions. I grew up in Arkansas, and I was very disappointed that Blanche Lincoln prevailed in the primary. She talks a lot about the senate seat not being for sale to groups outside Arkansas. But her own very large contributions from the health insurance industry, finance, and big-time Agriculture make me wince whenever I hear her complain about money from outside Arkansas from people like me who sent Bill Halter $45.
Brad Hunnicutt
Garner, NC
Can you please discuss the surprising victory of Orley Tates as the candidate for Secretary of State in California? She's an extreme example of a tea party candidate.
how do you explain California's selection of Whitman and Fiorini? At a time when American business is attempting to eliminate the American middle class Californians select two super rich outsourcers in chief.
In such a tough jobs climate how could anyone vote for someone who says Americans have no god given right to jobs as she sends thousands of Americans into unemployment and their jobs to India.Do Do Republican Californians not need jobs or are they daft? This comes as hp prepares to send thousands of more jobs to India. Carly must still be consulting with hp.
Regarding the Blanche Lincoln race: I've heard a lot about how much money was spent by unions and other outsiders in this race to help defeat her. I have heard no mention of the millions of dollars her campaign took from oil companies, health corporations and other outside corporations. Her opponent, who is considered the outsider, got much less from these Washington lobbying groups. Yet the media has made little or no mention of this.
Regarding the Blanche Lincoln race: I've heard a lot about how much money was spent by unions and other outsiders in this race to help defeat her. I have heard no mention of the millions of dollars her campaign took from oil companies, health corporations and other outside corporations. Her opponent, who is considered the outsider, got much less from these Washington lobbying groups. Yet the media has made little or no mention of this.
I think that yesterday's primaries demonstrated:
1. for Republicans, closed primaries with a registration date six months earlier are a bad idea (can be easily captured);
2) the CA race for governor doesn't mean much because the state is ungovernable because of the ease of public referenda on any number of issues (Pete Wilson? George Deukmejian? Who remembers?);
3) the Tea Partiers can turn out the primary vote but it is highly unlikely they will capture the majority in a general election; and
4) social media are far more powerful than most politicians realize.
I thought perhaps the most interesting (and least colorful) result was that the current Chairman of the Board of Supervisors in Fairfax County VA lost the primary to the guy who lost the election in 2008 for Tom Davis' old seat. It is likely the Dems will hold that seat come November.
I am so sorry, really really sorry Sue Lowden lost in Nevada. Now THAT was going to be a very colorful campaign. All those chickens!! But Sharron Angle sticks by her belief that all the inmates in Nevada prisons for drug offenses should be forced to undergo the drug treatment program developed by L. Ron Hubbard!! Wonderful. Diplo65
I think your guest is wrong about ebay being a "well respected company" I have sold items on ebay since 2001 (1300 so far) and find it to be a terrible company to deal with (I know what you are thinking but I have never had bad feedback) It's the only game in town and provides a useful service but one example: Ebay forces sellers to use the Ebay owned paypal for which ebay charges sellers a fee on top of the other seller fees. If one has a problem with their paypay account it is nearly impossible to contact a real person for help (Unlike most financial institutions, paypal has no 800 number, one must pay for the call assuming the number to call may be found-not easy !) I think that Ebay's ownership of paypal and their forcing sellers to use it is an anti-trust issue and perhaps, a legacy of Meg Whitman ?
Craig Merz, Littleton NC
I really disappointed that you allow your guests to go unchallenged in expressing what appears to have become a conventional wisdom, defining conservative democrats as "moderate democrats". This, of course, implies that the progressive and leftish democrats are somehow extreme. There is actually no dictionary definition of "moderate" that can be applied to give meaning to the phrase applied to conservative democrats, so it must be being put forward for its propaganda effect.
I was saddened to hear the avoidance of the facts regarding Blanche Lincoln's "victory"...in that the Garland County Arkansas Election Commissioner ARBITRARILY decided that in the run off election Garland County needed only TWO precincts instead of the usual 42....a clear attempt to supress the vote that was demonstrably (in the primary) for Halter. He also told Halter that there would be early voting , then there was not, lending to still more confusion. As was said on the show, turn out is critical as well as volatile in run off elections. For the Election Commissioner of Garland County, and who knows how many other Counties, to "Fix" the voting places so inconveniently and to make difficult the vote for the voters...i.e taxpayers, citizens, party members, aka those "pesky little folk" shows an utter contempt toward what should be the Democratic Party's raison d'etre that reeks of corruption. I hope they can all sleep at night, I sure couldn't if I had put Lincoln over the rights of average Arkansans as have they. May the dogs of revenge find happiness in biting their repective posteriors.