The salivating jaws of our nation's 24/7 news media ("Our news hole is always 100%") are dying to pontificate tonight and tomorrow and possibly for the next week or two over the outcomes of three U.S. Senate primary elections (Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Kentucky) and one special election in southwestern Pennsylvania to fill the seat of a deceased Congressman accused of various acts of corruption and malfeasance.
In Arkansas and Pennsylvania, the incumbent senators are facing serious challenges from the left, similar to the way Utah's Republican Sen. Bob Bennett was hammered from the right at his state convention.
Primary elections are not generally bellwethers of national trends because a significant percentage of voters are either passionate true believers or extremist cranks.
Multiple factors unique to each state are also at play. For example, in Pennsylvania, Sen. Arlen Specter is under attack for leaving the GOP for the Democrats, for drinking at the taxpayer's trough for multiple decades, for his advanced age, and for recent serious health problems.
The factors that ultimately dominate in this race and the others, will soon be fully revealed, which will only partially sate the appetites of the voracious media jackals until the next electoral event.
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