Tuesday's election results: First reactions

Women won big on Tuesday, and so did (most) incumbents. Is it time to rethink the conventional wisdom?

Republican Meg Whitman won in California.
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Tuesday's party primaries were great for women, Tea Party candidates, and — in an upset of the 2010 conventional wisdom — incumbents. Even as a new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows "anti-incumbent sentiment at an all-time high," with just 29 percent of voters inclined to vote for their current House representative, sitting legislators fought back viable challenges in New Jersey, Montana, Virginia, and, most notably, Arkansas. (Watch an AP report about women winning primaries.) Here's a look at the six biggest races, and what commentators are saying about them:

1. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) stays alive

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