Terence Samuel argues that super-angry voter syndrome is beginning to look increasingly like a fiction:
The anti-incumbent surge that is supposed to swamp President Obama and his party was not much in evidence last night. The poster-child for that school of political thought, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, beat back a strong challenge from Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in a close fight to be the Democratic senate nominee, and she did it with the help of a perennial incumbent, Bill Clinton.
In Democratic primaries elsewhere, no one seemed safer than incumbents like Harry Reid in Nevada to Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown in California.
Among Republicans, the internal debate continued between the Tea Party and the rest of the party that hews, by comparison, closer to the middle. The Tea Party candidate in Nevada won the GOP nomination to challenge Sen. Harry Reid this fall, and the tawdry fight for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in South Carolina is headed to a run-off between Gresham Barrett and the now-famous Tea Party endorsed candidate, Nikki Haley, who ran away with the contest but failed to get 50 percent of the vote.