GOP Senate Incumbents Lose in Pa., Ohio

att.net news ^ | November 7, 2006 | By TOM RAUM

[ropin71]

GOP Senate Incumbents Lose in Pa., Ohio

Updated 9:16 PM ET November 7, 2006

By TOM RAUM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats, seizing on voter unrest over the Iraq war, defeated incumbent Republicans in Ohio and Pennsylvania on Tuesday in a bid to take control of the Senate.

In Pennsylvania, Democrat Bob Casey, son of a popular former governor, defeated incumbent Sen. Rick Santorum, a conservative and third-ranking member of the Senate GOP leadership. Democratic Rep. Sherrod Brown beat GOP incumbent Mike DeWine in Ohio, a state where Republican scandals was devastating for the party.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Democrats' vice presidential candidate in 2000 but running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary, kept his seat from Connecticut.

[kuma]

I hope Santorum has the sense not to concede until all the votes including absentee have been counted.

[ropin71]

Very discouraged here in NJ.... the MSM in my opinion is brainwashing all of these couch potatos along with the music and ent industry getting to the young people. Roling Stone, which is supposed to be about the music has certainly been spewing alot of garbage lately.

The Dems are the new Anti-Christian movement for sure.

[DarthVader]

"A lot of former Reagan Democrats in PA despise Bush and despise the Iraq War."

Maybe they'll enjoy having the war come here to American soil and suffer themselves. Talk about people who live in a bubble. The Neville Chamberlain crowd of America. History does repeat itself and the real war vs Islamofacism is about to begin.

[kuma]

When or where did you hear this?

[444Flyer]

If true, see you all in two years! Let's hope we are still here after the damage is done by the "demiwits".

[SteveMcKing]

"People need to get out of their bubbles and actually meet and talk to people that don't share their political beliefs."

I do, and it can be jaw-dropping sometimes. People you thought you related to turn out unreliable, unprincipled, ready to sellout everything for a Scooby-snack. You probe a little deeper, and you'll find they're outright communists, or just plain clueless about anything (anything that matters anyway)... yet they call themselves things that they're NOT.

It works the other way too-- folks I've assumed to be enemies will say something surprisingly inline with my values, or even insightful when I thought they were dimwits before talking to them.

Like you said, you just never know until you talk to people.

[calex59]

It is simply amazing how many FReepers are falling for the old exit poll trick that happens every election. The MSM promised not to do it this election but they are worse then have ever been. Most of the races they are calling have the Republican ahead and a very small percentage of the vote in. It is a form of voter fraud, attempting to suppress the republican vote.

[kylaka]

Watched the actual concession, WHYY PBS Philadelphia.

[kylaka]

Watched the actual concession, WHYY PBS Philadelphia.

[doublecansiter]

Yes, DeWine should lose. But in the primary, not
when the seat is up for grabs.

Mike

[steve-b]

Master Rove's Kung Fu is weak!

[capydick]

Sooner or later the Repubs will figure out that they are in a fight with the MSM just as much as they are with Democrats. If they take care of the MSM, they will take care of the RAT'S.

The Pub's have allowed the MSM to slam the President every - single - day since the 2002 elections and decided to start fighting back about 2 months ago. Lesson learned, time to pick up the pieces and fire up the engines now because 2008 will be here before we know it.

[Zhang Fei]

Here

[WestSylvanian]

I'm listening to Santorum conceding right now. This good man lost because of one person--George Bush. Bush can't concede anything, not even that he might need to get a new Secretary of Defense with some new ideas. He is so arrogant it's disgusting.

Santorum worked his butt off for Pennsylvania but he was too closely associated with Bush, and people in Pennsylvania are fed up with Bush's bumbling around in Iraq with no discernible plan for victory, just more of the same. I am thoroughly tired of him. How is he going to get conservative judges approved without sufficient numbers in the Senate? Who's going to stop his asinine immigration bill that will endanger our security and our future? The Democrats will now push it through the House with no trouble. I regret the day I voted for Bush.

Santorum is worth two Bushes. I hope he runs for President.

[MaineVoter2002]

Mcain says he's "sad". Sure he is. Im sure he's happy inside as he thinks about 2008

[steve-b]

I hope Santorum has the sense not to concede until all the votes including absentee have been counted.

Given how severely he was beaten, delaying concession would have been a piece of algorish bad grace.

[Zhang Fei]

Santorum worked his butt off for Pennsylvania but he was too closely associated with Bush, and people in Pennsylvania are fed up with Bush's bumbling around in Iraq with no discernible plan for victory, just more of the same.

A more likely explanation is that the people of Pennsylvania leaned Democratic anyway because of their liberalism. This is why Arlen Specter keeps on getting voted in - his liberal views make him indistinguishable from his Democratic opponent.

As to Iraq, the small minority of people who might have wavered between Santorum and his opponent (vs the hardcore liberals) have been swayed by relentlessly negative media coverage. At a similar point in WWII, we were losing 300 killed men a day. And yet the media back then chose not to highlight those figures. At a similar point in Vietnam, we were losing two dozen men a day. And yet the media took its time before coming out against the war. The fact is that the casualty rates coming out of Iraq have been better than most previous wars both in the conventional and guerrilla phases. If there is any arrogance, it is on the part of the media, that has chosen to fill the news pages and the airwaves with its distortion of what is actually happening.

But here's the rub. Today, it is not Rick Santorum who has lost. If the Democrats win both Houses of Congress, the losers in this election are the people of Pennsylvania - and the people of America.

[Strutt9]

Its, not just the democrats... MSM has won as well. The old adage... Tell it often enough, people(Mass) start believing as well. If the Democrats do win... the MSM will have its' shield law and will the start of Islam control of the U.S.

Yes, I'm disappointed with the outcome and wonder what is happening to the people of U.S.

We have a Republican party that is afraid of the media (which we all know lies and is part of the DNC). BUT, they don't speak up. Google & Yahoo is part of the DNC as well and helping them.
Yes, I'm paranoid, I see the selling the of U.S. by the Arabs/Islam cult..Oh God, I'm ranting because I feel so lost... don't want to have to deal with another occupied country and the U.S. is going in that path.

[reaganandme]

Rove, you Magnificent bastard!

Thank you for providing me with a laugh, at a otherwise gloomy night.

On another note, conservatism loses big tonight with the loss of Rick Santorum.

[elhombrelibre]

I'm just encouraging the idea that we should not sound like the DU types who've gone off of the deep end because they were in the opposition. We'll have plenty to fight about, and we will.