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Disgruntled voters take down veteran senator Arlen Specter

By: yahoo.comPosted On: 05/19/2010 11:41 A

Disenchanted voters in both parties turned against the establishment on Tuesday, choosing a conservative "Tea Party" newcomer over a handpicked Republican favorite and dumping veteran Democratic Senator Arlen Specter  ahead of November's midterm elections.

On the biggest day of voting so far, two-term Senator Blanche Lincoln also struggled and was headed to a June 8 run-off election against Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter after failing to win the necessary majority of the Democratic Senate primary vote in Arkansas.

"This is what democracy looks like -- a win for the people over the establishment, over the status quo, even over Washington D.C.," an exuberant Representative Joe Sestak told supporters in Pennsylvania after beating the 80-year-old Specter.

Specter, a 30-year Senate veteran and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was the latest incumbent to go down in a wave of anti-establishment anger fueled by distrust of Washington and worries neither party is doing enough to rescue the economy and restrain government spending.

In Kentucky, conservative Rand Paul easily won the Republican nomination over Secretary of State Trey Grayson -- the handpicked choice of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell -- for an open Senate seat in a race seen as an early test of the loosely organized Tea Party movement.

Paul, a doctor and son of libertarian Republican Representative Ron Paul, rode a wave of voter anger with the help of Tea Party activists who oppose runaway federal spending and favor more limited government.

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