Can't lose for losing

Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul, longshot presidential hopefuls in the past years primary contests both won their Congressional primaries yesterday.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) easily defeated a well-funded Cleveland city councilor, Joe Cimperman, and three other Democratic challengers.

Kucinich defeated Cimperman by a 50 to 35 percent margin. Three other Democrats — North Olmstead Mayor Tom O’Grady, anti-war activist Rosemary Palmer and 2006 candidate Barbara Ferris — split the remainder of the vote....

Meanwhile, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) handily defeated his Republican rival, Friendswood City Councilman Chris Peden, in tonight’s primary and will be heading back to Congress for another term.

Paul defeated Peden by a 70 percent to 30 percent margin.

I hadn't been keeping up with Kucinich's race, because, frankly, I don't really care. Ron Paul's race was curious though, from what I had read a couple of weeks ago, it looked like Peden was going to heavily challenge Paul. I guess polling was wrong. Astonishingly wrong. It was good to get somewhat of a libertarian message out through Paul's campaign, and better to see that he retained his House seat.