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Saturday, June 05, 2010

Elections Aren’t for Sissies

By GAIL COLLINS
NYT

Loads of exciting primaries next week! Although it’ll be hard to top the one in South Carolina, where two Tea Party candidates are fighting about a lie detector test and a state senator has argued that racist comments he made over the radio don’t really count since the interview occurred in a bar.

I’ve been paying a disproportionate amount of attention to Republicans this election cycle, but it’s not my fault. Most of the Democratic primaries are incredibly boring. There are a couple of bitter battles, like the one Tuesday that will determine the fate of Senator Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas. But it’s hard to combine the phrases “Senator Blanche Lincoln” and “really exciting story” in the same sentence.

Meanwhile, the Republicans sniff blood, and the smell has gotten them so excited that they are all jumping into the ring and hitting each other over the head with mallets.

In Nevada, voters seemed to be suffering from Harry Reid exhaustion — a sentiment not improved by the fact that while the Senate majority leader is up for re-election, his son is running for governor. But the Reid camp has come up with a canny campaign strategy that involves hoping the Republicans kill one another.

(More here.)

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