PRIMARY AND ELECTION DAY – This is being called Junior Super Tuesday in some quarters.  Well, it isn't quite that, but it's a very important voting day. 

Two races in Pennsylvania are probably the most exciting:  In the 12th C.D., a Republican, Tim Burns, has a good shot at taking over the seat held by the permanently deceased John Murtha, a Democratic icon, if an unstable one.  Final polls show essentially a dead heat.

And, of course, there's the race between two men whose personalities would repel even their mothers...and that's when they were in the womb.  Sen. Arlen Specter, who has found only semi-love in the Democratic Party, to which he recently switched, is locked in a dead-heat primary race with Rep. Joe Sestak, former Navy vice admiral, whose ability to make enemies places him the highly skilled labor force.  May the least obnoxious man win.  Well, actually, may the most obnoxious man win, so he'd be more easily beatable by GOP candidate Pat Toomey in November.

In Arkansas, Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln, who resembles a passenger on the Titanic, after it ran out of lifeboats, is in a primary race with the lieutenant governor of the state, Bill Halter, and another, distant candidate.  Lincoln must get 50% to avoid a runoff.  But, even if she survives, she is expected to be defeated in November, which would be a GOP pickup.

In Kentucky, the Republicans will engage in one of their periodic suicide attempts by nominating he-ought-be-in-a-straitjacket Rand Paul, son of certifiable Ron Paul, instead of the far more solid Trey Grayson, endorsed by former Vice President Dick Cheney and practically the entire GOP leadership.  This is an anti-establishment vote, but sometimes the establishment is right.  Sadly, Paul has the support of the tea partiers, who have apparently never examined his extreme-left foreign-policy views.  He also has the endorsement of Sarah Palin, who also didn't do her homework.  If the Democrats play it right, they can defeat Paul in November.

Stay with us tonight.

May 18, 2010