Throw The Bums Out

I bet this bit of news from West Virginia won't get near the amount of coverage of that the tossing of Bob Bennett from Utah will get, but the DEMOCRAT voters have tossed longtime representative Alan Mollohan out of office.

Representative Alan Mollohan, a 14-term Democrat, has become the first House member of the 2010 campaign to lose a re-election bid after a West Virginia state senator defeated him.

Unofficial returns from Tuesday's election showed state Senator Mike Oliverio leading Mollohan 56 percent to 44 percent in the primary vote to become the Democratic Party's candidate for mid-term elections in November.

Can't blame the Tea Party for this one. What sort of excuses will the Dems give for this one?

There is a real palpable sense of turning on the incumbents this election year, and it crosses party lines. There is an opening for the Republicans for this seat now, even though the media assures us this is remote, but I am sure some of the "experts" in the hierarchy of Democrat politics are starting to feel the heat. This is shaping up to be one of the most wide open election cycles that I can recall in a long time, even more volatile then the often referenced '94 election that brought Newt Gingrich and the Contract for America to Washington.