Muddy waters

Upset victories in Republican primaries in Delaware and New Hampshire have further muddied the waters in this year’s election, taking two states listed by Real Clear Politics as “Lean Republican” and likely moving them into the “Toss-up” column.

In Delaware, Democrat Chris Coons has an 11-point lead in the most recent poll over Tea Party favorite Chritine O’Donnell, who knocked off Republican Mike Castle, who was expected to win by a large vote total come November.

In New Hampshire, early returns have Ovide Lamontagne beating Kelly Avotte — which, if it holds, gives the Democrats a shot at stealing a Republican-held seat, based on polling from earlier this summer.

This is just speculation, of course. But it does present us with an interesting election season to follow.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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  1. The GOP has become a far right wing radical regressive reactionary party of know nothings who are totally controlled by the billionaires (robber barons like Peterson and the Koch brothers) and the corporations. So don't hand me this crap that there is no difference between the 2 parties. One party says that Soc. Sec., Medicare and Medicare are unconstitutional. That's false, these programs are constitutional via article one, section 8. If you would use the flawed logic of the right wing nuts, then you would conclude that the US Air Force is unconstitutional, too. The GOP phoney baloney call for limited government and lower taxes really means that the corporations and the billionaires want a free lunch and want to pay even less taxes than they get away with now. They don't want any regulations so they can pollute even more, with total impunity and without fear of law suits. The Wall Street banksters don't want any regulations so they can steal more billions while they cause a depression. They don't give a damn about ordinary Americans.

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