Yesterday's elections all add up to one thing, so Chuck Todd and others in the know tell us: if you're an incumbent, you might as well resign.
That's right-- it's just as clear as it could be. Take that guy from Kentucky, Rand Paul, he defeated an incumbent, a smart ass named Grayson, congressman from Florida. What? not that Grayson? Trey Grayson. Never heard of him. He's not an incumbent? But he was backed by Mitch McConnell, and he's an incumbent. Close enough.
Well, it was not a good day for Arlen Specter either. He was an incumbent Democratic senat... no wait, he's not really an incumbent Democratic senator; he was elected as a Republican, many times. But he did switch parties, so that makes him a Democratic incumbent even if Democrats had never voted to put him on the ballot before. But those angry votes weren't going to hand this incumbent their vote this time. Nope, they went for this guy Joe Sestak. Their anger was going to show that Washington establishment. They took that anger and voted for a Democratic congressman, a guy who had won two Democratic primaries before, serving his second term, and sitting on three major House Committees. That'll show those arrogant Washington insiders.
Chuck Todd tells us that it's been curtains for incumbents for a while. Look at Kaye Bailey Hutchinson, incumbent Republican senator from Texas. Why she was just shunned by the voters in that Texas Republican gubernatorial primary. She got beat by some wacky guy, Perry, you know that Texas governor. Wait a minute, isn't he an incumbent?
Well, in that special election for John Murtha's seat, the voters really showed their anger. They weren't about to trust some Washington insider incumbent to keep leading us in the wrong direction. Chuck's NBC poll tells us that this is what the voters are saying. So I guess they stoked up all their anger to show Murtha that incumbents need not apply... What? What's that? Murtha died? Oh, so a special election to fill his seat--I get it. Well, I bet those voters showed just how angry they are, all the same. Yup, they elected this outsider named Critz ... What? Really? a longtime aide to Murtha on Capitol Hill. Doesn't that make him kind of a proxy incumbent?
Anyway, the voters are really angry. So they elected this guy Rand Paul in Kentucky to be the Republican nominee for the senate. Tonight, he was saying that he hates racism. I wonder what those angry voters will think when they hear that. Think they'll be pissed?