From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
A political Sherlock Holmes trying to find clues to the meaning of the Pennsylvania primary may have to look for a dog that didn’t bark. That would be the anti-incumbent fever much discussed lately by pundits.
To be sure, anti-incumbency feelings touched yesterday’s blue-ribbon event — the U.S. Senate race for the Democratic nomination between Pennsylvania’s longest-serving senator, Arlen Specter, and Joe Sestak. But other currents were also pulling to give victory to Mr. Sestak, himself a two-term member of the U.S. House and hardly an outsider….
But to those like us who see only the faint hand of anti-incumbency at work in this Pennsylvania primary, the lieutenant governor’s race does hold a caution. Far-right state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe of Cranberry finished third among a nine-member Republican field with more than 101,000 votes. The tea party folks are out there and they won’t be going away any time soon, as the mood in the rest of the nation seems to indicate…
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