"Tea Bagger" Tanks in the North Country
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Lawyer and retired Air Force Capt. Bill Owens defeated "Tea Bagger" Doug Hoffman in a special election Tuesday in northern New York. Hoffman was endorsed by Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the rabid right wing of the Republican Party
This seat has been has been in GOP hands since the end of the Civil War (for "you folks in Rio Linda," that's 144 years).
The real news here is not that a Democrat won an election in a Republican stronghold, but that sane Republicans and rationale independents rejected an attempt by the inmates to take over the asylum.