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Republican advisors warn of '06 rout in Congress

Josh Gerstein of the New York Sun writes: A longtime adviser to GOP candidates, Michael Murphy, said Republicans running for office at the state level might escape voters' wrath, but the party's congressional candidates could experience an anti-incumbent rout on par with that suffered by Democrats in 1994. "Federally, it could be very bad," Mr. Murphy predicted. He described as "horrible" current poll numbers about the country's direction.

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Anti-Incumbency hitting even Orin Hatch's numbers

Poll regarding Utah's Senator Orin Hatch:

Re-Elect Hatch: 45%
Someone New: 48%

DavidNYC writes at the Swing State Project: "What this poll tells me is simply that there is a potentially very strong anti-incumbent wind a-brewin'. It won't be enough to knock down Orrin Hatch, but it'll leave a lot of weaker GOP politicians flat on their behinds."

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Voters Knock Out Incumbents

AP writer Susan Haigh reports:

The races had separate issues, such as Middletown's troubled $80 million high school building project, but a political scientist believes something larger is happening in Connecticut and across the country.

"I do believe there is an anti-incumbent mood that is setting in, which is probably at work," said Gary L. Rose, chairman of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University.

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N.J. Media moving anti-incumbent.

"New Jersey's daily newspapers have declined to endorse seventeen incumbents seeking re-election to the State Assembly". This item and details can be found at The Inside Edge.

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