{"id":5574,"date":"2010-05-19T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:29:13","slug":"senate-primary-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/19\/senate-primary-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate primary lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5575\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/voting-booth-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"voting booth\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/>U.S. Senate <a title=\"primaries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE64H0P120100519?type=politicsNews\" target=\"_blank\">primaries<\/a> &#8212; with Republican-turned-Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/specter.senate.gov\/public\/\">Arlen Specter<\/a> defeated in the\u00a0Pennsylvania Democratic primary, Arkansas Democratic Senator\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lincoln.senate.gov\/\">Blanche Lincoln<\/a> forced into a run-off, and a hand-picked GOP candidate beaten by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teapartypatriots.org\/\">Tea Party<\/a> favored\u00a0candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randpaul2010.com\/\">Rand Paul<\/a> in Kentucky &#8212; may\u00a0indicate an anti-incumbent mood in the country.\u00a0 But political science Professor <a title=\"GrahamWilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson <\/a>cautions that\u00a0the Specter loss proves no national trend and\u00a0the Democrats also saved the late <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murtha.org\/\">John Murtha&#8217;s<\/a> House\u00a0seat in Pennsylvania where the Republicans seemed favored.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHowever, Paul\u2019s victory does show that within the Republican party the tea party movement is a real force, one that might result in the GOP being encumbered with far right conservative candidates in the November elections.\u00a0 It\u2019s like the reverse image of the McGovernites taking over the Democratic Party in the 1970s.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senate primaries &#8212; with Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter defeated in the\u00a0Pennsylvania Democratic primary, Arkansas Democratic Senator\u00a0Blanche Lincoln forced into a run-off, and a hand-picked GOP candidate beaten by Tea Party favored\u00a0candidate Rand Paul in Kentucky &#8212; may\u00a0indicate an anti-incumbent mood in the country.\u00a0 But political science Professor Graham Wilson cautions that\u00a0the Specter loss proves no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2843,2818,2819,1419,2842,2845,2840,2844,2841,2820,1974,2821,2817],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7746,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions\/7746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}