EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE REPUBLICAN NAZI LOSES HIS PRIMARY-- THE INDIANA CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES

A couple weeks ago we were all aghast watching Tony Zirkle, an Indiana Republican candidate for Congress celebrating Hitler's birthday at a Nazi Party meeting. He lost his primary today, coming in third-- but still earning 3,566 Republican votes in the second CD. The 3 Republicans together wound up with less than 20,000 votes and Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly, who had no challenger, had almost 85,000 votes.



In the third CD Republican rubber stamp incumbent Mark Souder garnered 26,689, winning his primary, while the Democrat challenging him, Mike Montagano, who was unopposed, had 57,489 votes. It was a similar story in the 4th CD, where GOP incumbent Steve Buyer won his primary-- all 3 Republicans getting around 43,000 votes while Nels Ackerson, the Democratic challenger (unopposed) got over 55,000.

Republican loon Dan Burton had a tough primary but he beat his opponent 25,678  to 18,730. Mary Etta Ruley, the winning Democrat in the district, did better than either of them with 26,662 votes. In the 5th CD there were around 44,000 Republican voters and 46,000 Democratic voters.

The big shocker though was in the 6th District where Blue America-endorsed progressive Barry Welsh took 82,179  votes, as opposed to rubber stamp extremist Mike Pence who only had 38,031 votes.

In the 7th CD Andre Carson, with 7 Democratic primary challengers, won convincingly. He will face Jon Elrod (who had 17,000 votes compared to Carson's 58,000). In the 8th CD reactionary Democrat Brad Ellsworth had no primary. And in the 9th another reactionary Dem, Baron Hill, fended off his primary challengers, including Blue America-endorsed Gretchen Clearwater.

Right now 95% of the votes are counted in Indiana. Clinton has 606,497 votes (50.7%) and Obama has 589,888 votes (49.3%). Gary, Indiana hasn't reported most of its votes and that is Obama territory. They are still counting absentee ballots.

TONIGHT'S WINNERS: BARACK OBAMA IN MISSISSIPPI AND ANDRE CARSON IN INDIANAPOLIS

Indiana gets a new Democratic Rep- Andre Carson beats Elrod

Obama beat Hillary in Mississippi, as expected, 60% to 37% (although votes are still being tabulated). So far it looks like he'll take 17 delegates to her 11. I was more interested in the congressional special election in Indiana, where Republicans were desperate to turn around their spate of miserable performances. After Julia Carson passed away, Democrats nominated her grandson, Andre Carson, to run for the seat. The Republicans came up with Jon Elrod. With 78% of the vote counted it is safe to say we have another newly elected Democratic House member.

ANDRE D. CARSON (DEM) . . . . . . . 40,396 (53.85%)
JON ELROD (REP) . . . . . . . . . . . 32,424 (43.23%)
SEAN SHEPARD (LIB) . . . . . . . . . . .2,148 ( 2.86%)

We'll see if Andre turns out to be as good a representative as his grandmother was. His campaign website has an issues page and the first item is Iraq:

I oppose to the War in Iraq, and believe it is time to bring our troops home safely. I support an immediate change to a responsible redeployment plan that will end the war in Iraq and bring our brave men and women home with honor. It is time for the Iraqis to take responsibility for their security, with benchmarks for Iraqi military and political success along with a responsible timeline to bring our troops home.