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Congressional Quarterly Election Update

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Anti-Incumbent Fever Could Be Rising

(KCPW News) This midterm election year has been fairly ho-hum with no surprises. But that has changed; with three incumbents losing their re-election, including the upset of Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman.

In this week's Congressional Quarterly Election Update, online editor Bob Benenson tells KCPW's Bryan Schott the losses by those incumbents should have other incumbents worried about their own political fortunes.

 


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1. Stephen Folkson said:

Lieberman, a former attorney general of

his state, should have waited until all the evidence was in. This president wanted the U.S. to get into a

wae with Iraq "come hell or high water." Someone like the Congressional Budget Office shoud do some calculations on what this ware hascost us thus far. It smells, looks and feels like Viet Nam all over again. Thus said, and we cannot solve the problem of giving every person in the U.S. health care on the highest level.

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