2010 Mid-Term Election Results

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Lamp, that is nothing short of fear mongering.

Is it me that is doing the fear-mongering, or the news media, or the conservatives, themselves ?

Here is another news source talking about the same thing, but with quotes from several leaders of Conservative groups:

Removal of Iowa judges may inspire similar efforts

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Emboldened by the success of a ballot initiative to oust Iowa judges who supported gay marriage,
conservative activists are looking for new ways to use the power of the vote to strike back against the courts.
Judicial-removal campaigns have generally been difficult to sell to the public.
But now some groups view them as a potential tool to influence the judiciary on gay rights, abortion and other divisive social issues.

"For those who impose what we perceive as an immoral agenda, we're going to take them out,"
said David Lane, executive director of AFA Action, the political arm of Mississippi-based American Family Association,
which contributed about $100,000 to the Iowa campaign.
He said the group would do so again wherever judges "impose their will on free people."

The anti-abortion group Kansans For Life failed to remove four Supreme Court justice
for their decisions regarding abortion clinics.
Hall said gay marriage rulings are likely to cause the biggest backlashes in any future elections,
but that abortion also could motivate many voters.

Brown said the group may organize future campaigns to remove
the other four Iowa justices involved in the same-sex marriage ruling.
And they might take on judges in other states, too.

Troy Newman, president of the Wichita, Kan.-based anti-abortion group Operation Rescue,
said Iowa's vote could be a model for more challenges around the nation.
He said his group plans to get involved in other state judicial races but has not decided which ones to target.

[b]Operation Rescue, which also opposes gay marriage, made phone calls and sent volunteers to lobby Iowa voters, Newman said.
He predicted that judicial challenges, especially over gay rights and possibly abortion,
would happen more frequently due to rising voter anger.
"2010 was the beginning of the beginning," Newman said.

Connie Mackey, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council's political action committee,
said the group contributed $60,000 to the Iowa campaign and was eager to challenge justices in Iowa or elsewhere
whose decisions are out of line with the group's agenda.

"Where we can play a role, and where we feel we can have a shot at taking those judges out, we certainly will jump in," she said.