If you're an incumbent elected official, be afraid, very afraid.
The primary election proved again that being in office or even being a politician for a while is hazardous to your electoral health.
Voters are unhappy with the way things are and they are blaming anyone who has had a hand in politics for some time.
If the trend continues in November, it will be the fourth state and federal change election in a row.
Whether voters nationwide this fall will again show the disdain for incumbents that they've shown the last three elections remains to be seen.
Each of the local races in which incumbents went down to defeat included specific circumstances that contributed to their losses, and it was incumbents who did the losing.
In one of the biggest upsets, attorney Matt Cartwright rather easily knocked off incumbent U.S. Rep. Tim Holden in the race for the Democratic nomination for the 17th Congressional District.
Statewide, a Waverly Township woman, former Lackawanna County Assistant District Attorney Kathleen Kane, became the first female nominee of either party for state attorney general by defeating former two-term U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, who represented a suburban Philadelphia congressional district in Washington until he lost two years ago. She will face Republican Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed in a contest that should highlight the gender gap plaguing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
In the Republican U.S. Senate race, former coal mining company owner Tom Smith cruised to a rather easy win in a field of five that included biotech entrepreneur Steve Welch. Mr. Smith's win was a clear rebuke of Gov. Tom Corbett, who had engineered the state party's endorsement for Welch.
Smith will face Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, who cruised to renomination, but somehow managed to lose about 20 percent of the Democratic vote to an unknown small businessman named Joe Vodvarka.
In 2006, when Casey first ran, he finished with 84.6 percent of the vote to two unknown challengers.
In Lackawanna County, state Rep. Kevin Murphy went down to defeat to upstart challenger Marty Flynn in the race for the 113th House district Democratic nomination. In the 112th, former county official Kevin Haggerty sloughed off his loss two years ago and defeated incumbent Rep. Ken Smith.
In the 115th, former County Commissioner Randy Castellani dropped a close contest to spirited challenger Frank Farina, a landscaping business owner.
Elsewhere in state legislative races, Republican House Speaker Sam Smith was only narrowly winning renomination and House Transportation Committee Chairman Rick Geist was trailing in his bid.
In the 11th Congressional District, the Democratic nominee will be Gene Stilp, the one candidate known for taking on Harrisburg.
Everywhere you turned, the pols went down at the polls, or almost did.
In the cases of Smith (his former restaurant's unpaid taxes), Murphy (a college degree he said he had but didn't) and Castellani (his sudden resignation as commissioner seven years ago), other circumstances could have factored into their losses.
In Holden's case, his conservative Democratic voting record in what was a Republican majority 17th came under attack from a challenger, Cartwright, who ran in a future 17th that will have a Democratic majority starting next year because of redistricting.
Despite 20 years in Congress, Holden ran in a district that was three quarters different from the one he was used to running in, and that seriously leveled the playing field for Cartwright.
In the Senate race, Welch had the backing of a governor who twisted arms to gain him the endorsement, but also a governor whose approval ratings are relatively low.
So the renewed anti-incumbent fever might be premature or Tuesday might have just been "a silent anti-incumbency" vote that hints at worse for incumbents this fall, political analyst G. Terry Madonna, Ph.D., said.
"No real trend that you can see, but it certainly does look like more discontent," Madonna said. "Even if they (incumbents) survive, they're barely surviving. And guess what? On the Democratic side, it's something we haven't seen. You know the angst has been more with the tea party on the Republican side. But it also could be an anti-Harrisburg sense that we've had now for some time since the pay hike. And Bonusgate and all that is playing into all that angst that we're seeing."