Also: Thai protesters surrender, earthquake strikes California, more sanctions on Iran
Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., along with his daughter, Alex, and his wife, Susan, celebrate at a primary night watch event at the Valley Forge Military Academy & College in Wayne, Pa., Tuesday. Sestak beat incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic Senate primary.From The Associated Press:
WASHINGTON -- With the electorate's intense anger reverberating across the country, this is all but certain: It's an anti-Washington, anti-establishment year. And candidates with ties to either better beware.Any doubt about just how toxic the political environment is for congressional incumbents and candidates hand-picked by national Republican and Democratic leaders disappeared late Tuesday, when voters fired Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, forced Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln into a run-off in Arkansas and chose tea party darling Rand Paul to be the GOP nominee in Kentucky's Senate race. ...
Taken together, the outcomes of primaries in Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Kentucky - following voter rejections of GOP Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah and Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan in West Virginia - provided further evidence that voters are in the mood to choose outsiders over insiders.
» Read the full story: Primaries show anti-establishment mood
More on Tuesday's primaries
» Arlen Specter: Pennsylvania voters turn away from high-profile party switcher [The Associated Press]
» Rand Paul: Victory in Kentucky also a win for Tea Party [CNN]
» Arkansas voters deliver muddled verdict: Lincoln, Halter headed to runoff [The Associated Press]
In other news
» Thai soldiers overrun protesters' camp, 'red shirt' leaders surrender [Washington Post]
» 4.5-magnitude quake strikes Southern California [CNN]
» U.S., U.N. partners agree to expanded sanctions on Iran [Washington Post]
» Video: Politicians, scientists fear spreading oil slick [The Associated Press]