However, by doing this, many will be opening the door to the primary challenge that may well cost them their jobs come 2014.
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McConnell could face a primary challenge from the Tea Party in 2014 so that may color his stated posture.
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He may face a challenge in the Republican primary from the state's senior senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison.
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Bullard pointed to a primary geographical challenge: the Hindu Kush mountain range that bisects the country, roughly separating north from south.
The overwhelming majority still fear a primary challenge from a more conservative rival more than a general-election campaign against a Democrat.
Mr Straus handily won his own primary challenge, but the tea-party want him binned as Speaker when the legislature reconvenes next year.
The senator, who faces a primary challenge in 2012, now says that even if he had been present, he would have voted against the act he helped write.
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In fact, Bennet, who visited every county in the state to help voters get acquainted with him, is facing a primary challenge from Andrew Romanoff, a former speaker of the state House.
But he has the good fortune of not facing a primary challenge, not having a primary contest.
In Washington, too, many Republicans are more worried about a primary challenge than they are about the general election.
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In Texas, Tom DeLay won the Republican primary in his congressional district (he faces a tougher challenge in November's mid-term elections).
Ms Hirono, who had previously retired from the race but then came back in, sneaked past a primary challenge from Ed Case, a conservative Democrat, by 2, 600 votes in September.
Mr. Suozzi has the backing of the Nassau County Democratic Committee's chairman, but faces a likely primary challenge from Adam Haber, a Roslyn School Board member who has been campaigning since December.
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To fully appreciate the challenge that we face today, remember that, in 1991, the inspectors searched Iraq's primary nuclear weapons facilities for the first time.
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