From USA TODAY:
…Rep. Tim Holden, D-Pa., was beaten by political newcomer Matt Cartwright, who delivered one of the biggest incumbent upsets this election year.
Holden, a 10-term congressman, was joined by Rep. Jason Altmire as the second incumbent Democrat to lose Tuesday. Altmire was beaten by fellow Democratic Rep. Mark Critz in a race in which each overwhelmingly won their home counties…
Holden was the most senior member of the Pennsylvania delegation and, like Altmire, a member of the dwindling Blue Dog Coalition, a faction of fiscally moderate Democratic lawmakers. The lawmakers were also two of the 13 House Democrats who voted against President Obama‘s health care law…
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