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Republican Bob Inglis is a pol in peril. As of this writing, it appears likely that he will lose his seat in South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District. In a crowded field of challengers–now with 83 percent of precincts reporting–he has only 26.2 percent of the vote compared with the leader, Spartanburg County Solicitor Trey Gowdy, who has 42.5 percent. That means the race is headed for a June 22 runoff because in South Carolina, candidates need to top 50 percent to win outright. It is difficult to imagine how Inglis will recover from a 16-point deficit heading into a runoff.
Gowdy has run a conservative, anti-establishment campaign against Inglis.
Inglis is just the latest incumbent Member of Congress to have trouble getting his party’s nomination. He joins Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT), Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), Rep. Parker Griffith (R-AL), and Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV). Despite the relative rarity, the fact that incumbent members of Congress are losing their seats in primaries this cycle should not come as a surprise; the national mood is very anti-Washington at this moment. According to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, only 29 percent of voters are inclined to support their House member. That is a historically low number.
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Hope it holds true for Darrell Issa!
TPM has Halter 51, Lincoln 49.
You would think the Dems and the GOP would do something about jobs if they were worried about their own jobs.
Will Halter challenge this based on the Garland County voter suppression?
Hey Teddy
Think shut down ‘em polling stations sure was good for Lincoln.
So now of course the obligatory cries will be”hey progressives” get over it,now shut up & go work for a corporate Dem Lincoln who will work
against your interest of course.
Now let see what the unions do…..let see how progressives the leadership is……
Hope it holds true for Darrell Issa!
Sigh…. The one Republican congressman who’s spoken favorably of an employer healthcare mandate, a living wage, providing health coverage as part of unemployment benefits, Miranda Rights for terror suspects and you want him gone because, what, he’s too conservative?
As for Bob Inglis, he was a brave soul to co-sponsor a bipartisan revenue-neutral carbon tax bill. Anyone who proposes something so sensible has no business running for office in South Carolina. Of course the White House royally screwed up by not endorsing the bill and passing it by reconciliation (good luck getting 60 votes for a climate change bill now suckers). Inglis, who must feel like Luke Wilson in Idiocracy, also made the papers with this… At a town hall meeting held by Rep. Robert Inglis (R-SC):
Someone reportedly told Inglis, “Keep your government hands off my Medicare.”
“I had to politely explain that, ‘Actually, sir, your health care is being provided by the government,’” Inglis told the Post. “But he wasn’t having any of it.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/get-your-goddamn-governme_b_252326.html