Snowe, Hatch and Lugar to be teabagged.....

[Keystone Phil]

Ok. Snowe still wins, Utah stays safe Republican regardless and Lugar likely wins or, at worst, Indiana is likely Republican. Thanks for the update though.

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Does Maine have a sore loser law? If Snowe loses the primary but runs as an independent, game over for everyone else.

They do........I was surprised, b33, that there are only a few that don't, if the lite wiki article is correct.

How about that. All 4 of those states are among the 9 states that don't have bans against gay marriage.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Whatever happened to teabagging Scott Brown?

It happened to him when he was young, so now no one's allowed to be as tough on him.

[Napoleon]

Whatever happened to teabagging Scott Brown?

It happened to him when he was young, so now no one's allowed to be as tough on him.

If this is your idea of humor, you are a demented and malicious individual
He opened up about this to help others be able to do the same, not for scrawny political nerds to poke fun at him from behind a keyboard. Sexual abuse is not a joke to most people.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Whatever happened to teabagging Scott Brown?

It happened to him when he was young, so now no one's allowed to be as tough on him.

If this is your idea of humor, you are a demented and malicious individual
He opened up about this to help others be able to do the same, not for scrawny political nerds to poke fun at him from behind a keyboard. Sexual abuse is not a joke to most people.

This 'scrawny political nerd' was also a victim of sexual abuse as a kid. I think I understand it perfectly fine. Allowing it to be something that can never be referenced without terror is the weak thing to do and makes you seem beaten, which I haven't done and won't do about this, either. It was a joke.

[feeblepizza]

No more Hatch, no more Snowe

I'm more neutral about Lugar. Murdock would probably be a more reliably conservative voter in the Senate.

[Sam Spade]

Lugar is already dead in the water - maybe he'll switch parties or run as an Indy, though the option with a slight chance to actually win would be the former.

I need to see who exactly runs against Snowe to determine her weakness - the announced challengers so far won't stand a chance.  You also need to watch how much she shifts her votes on certain issues and how much outreach she does - she's not a complete idiot like Mike Castle on this front.  Maine is also a little weird and tends to be a machine state on certain things and does things just to be different in other respects.

Hatch is a talented old pro and won't fall into the Bob Bennett trap, but his situation is probably more tenuous than Snowe, if I had a guess, simply because there's many more wolves around.

And since it's mentioned, I don't know who would challenge Brown, and I really doubt any other Republican would stand much of a chance.  He still remains quite popular with Republicans there being another reason - doubt he's in danger.

[nclib]

In Maine, if Snowe loses, Dems will likely pick up.
We likely have nothing to gain in Utah and will end up with Hatch or someone worse.
Lugar could still survive the primary, and the IN-DP has a weak bench anyway (Ellsworth, Donnelly?)

Which GOP incumbent Senators will escape a teabagging?

Let's see:

Snowe, Hatch, and Lugar already covered
Kyl retiring (he essentially is a tea bagger)
Brown will, since there's not much of a Tea Party presence in Mass. (Yes, that could have been said about Delaware last year, but Brown is more conservative than Castle and Mass. is more Dem than Delaware)
Hutchison retiring - will be replaced by a Tea Partier
Ensign - will be primaried for other reasons

That leaves Barrasso, Wicker, and Corker - any news on them?

[Napoleon]

Corker seems like he's asking for it but I think the tea party express might have lost some steam.

[Brittain33]

Corker seems like he's asking for it but I think the tea party express might have lost some steam.

The Tea Party isn't going after first-term members, from what I've seen.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

No more Hatch, no more Snowe

I'm more neutral about Lugar. Murdock would probably be a more reliably conservative voter in the Senate.

I'm happy of a potential Democratic pickup too.

[feeblepizza]

No more Hatch, no more Snowe

I'm more neutral about Lugar. Murdock would probably be a more reliably conservative voter in the Senate.

I'm happy of a potential Democratic pickup too.

It's not like the Maine race is going to matter, anyway. Snowe might as well be a Democrat if you look over her record.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

It's not like the Maine race is going to matter, anyway. Snowe might as well be a Democrat if you look over her record.

Statements like this make it really easy to separate those who know about politics and those who don't.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

It's not like the Maine race is going to matter, anyway. Snowe might as well be a Democrat if you look over her record.

Statements like this make it really easy to separate those who know about politics and those who don't.

Snow, Lugar, and Collins are are more liberal than some democrats. Besides Lugar is a hyper globalist.

[Miles]

An interesting article on Lugar and Hatch:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50014.html

Lugar is dissing the tea party while Hatch is embracing it; we'll see which strategy works better.

I guess Hatch is under more pressure because he will have to face a Convention of tea partiers; Lugar has the luxury of a normal primary.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Lugar is dissing the tea party while Hatch is embracing it; we'll see which strategy works better.

Neither will. Both are toast.

It's far easier for me to explain Lugar than Hatch, but then again, I'll never understand Mormons.

[Capitan Zapp Brannigan]

The open primary could help Lugar, so he might be catering to Democrats and Independents by being anti Tea-Party.

[minionofmidas]

Corker has a primary challenge. Not sure whether it's coming from the right, the trashy, or just the weird, but it's there.

Wicker is obviously unlikely. What's Barrasso's voting record been - he was heralded as a moderate when he arrived?

[Progressive]

Lugar will lose to Mourdock in a landslide. Maybe he could pull off a Murkowski.

[feeblepizza]

I hope that Lugar just stays out of the general after losing to Murdock. He has nothing to gain, what with being a left-of-center, 80 year old, 30some year incumbent.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I hope that Lugar just stays out of the general after losing to Murdock. He has nothing to gain, what with being a left-of-center, 80 year old, 30some year incumbent.

Are you seriously calling Lugar "centre-left"?