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John McCain Beats
Anti-Incumbency Wave

It looks like John McCain did withstand J.D. Hayworth and the anti-incumbency wave.

Do you know what doesn’t burn John McCain’s bacon? He just beat his most vicious political challenger ever: Anti-incumbency.

Sure, J.D. Hayworth was the embodiment of that anti-incumbency fear that has gripped many politicians looking to keep their jobs during this year’s mid-term elections. Hayworth probably kept Arizona’s favorite Republican U.S. senator awake at night as Hayworth, a former conservative talk radio host and former U.S. congressman, wanted McCain’s title.

But a good number of candidates who have suffered losses during the primary elections this year have been incumbents. For example, Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah is one of the more famous incumbents who was handed his pink slip back in May after 17 years of service.

Heck, even politicians who aren’t incumbents but have been in the game are having a tough time. Political new kid on the block Rick Scott handed state Attorney General Bill McCollum a swift beating as he won the Republican nomination in the Florida gubernatorial contest.

Now check this out: McCollum has been a congressman for 20 years in Florida. Meanwhile Scott, a multimillionaire businessman and a former hospital chief executive officer, created Conservatives for Patients Rights back in February 2009 to combat President Obama’s health care reform nightmare.

See, Scott was against health care reform before it was cool.

But unlike his Republican colleagues, McCain wasn’t defeated by the Anti-Incumbency Boogieman or by J.D. Hayworth, despite the fact that McCain wanted to grant illegal immigrants amnesty.

How sad is it for Hayworth that he — being Mr. Ultra Conservative — lost to a maverick who likes to work with Democrats?

Hopefully, Hayworth can get his old job back in talk radio because his political career looks like it’s over.