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"It should be a warning sign when your case for why polls are underestimating your party's strength is that fewer people will actually vote than pollsters project. If your party's fate depends on fewer Americans participating in our democracy, perhaps you have a popularity problem.It's not just that Mitt Romney lost, as did several Republican Senate candidates who should have won easily. The election was a victory for all kinds of big city liberal values: Weed was legalized. So was gay marriage. The rape apologist candidates lost. The first openly gay woman was elected to the Senate. The first black president was reelected -- on a platform of Obamacare, immigration, and raising taxes.On the Republican side, the most energetic part of the party is also the most opposed to these ideals. While the Tea Party won Republicans a majority in the House in 2010, election night 2012 showed the party's message is toxic at the national and statewide levels. While house races are local in character, Senate and presidential races are held statewide. And that is where the Tea Party did worst last night. Tea Partier Richard Mourdock picked off moderate Republican Sen. Dick Lugar in the Indiana primary, and then lost the election. Todd Akin proved he really was too conservative for Missouri, as Sen. Claire McCaskill claimed in primary ads intended to trick Republican voters into picking him as her opponent. Three other Tea Partying Senate candidates met the same fate in 2010. But while Tea Party's passionate activist model works best locally, sometimes that even fails at the congressional level when the race gets lots of attention -- Tea Partier Allen West lost in Florida, and former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann held onto her seat by about 3,000 votes in Minnesota."
Read more from Elspeth Reeve/ The Atlantic Wire:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/11/tea-partys-national-ambitions-are-finished/58790/ 
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Boise_LibAs someone who is surrounded by this everyday I have to say the madness will not stop.
Baggers are too entrenched for reality to have any effect at all.
RFlaggI am surrounded by them too and I agree. They seem to be doubling down. Despite the fact that the Republicans run against everything that Jesus taught, since Fox and their churches say to vote Republican they vote that way, and are convinced they are voting Christian values, and they see this (Obama's win, gay marriage and all that) as an attack against Christian values, and the country is suffering for turning its back on God by kicking him out of schools in the 50s (never mind that we added him to the pledge and our money and are still one of the most overtly open politically Christian nations in the world). I think we'll see them get more and more crazy, and if the Republican party were smart they would kick the Tea Party out, they'll lose Fox, Rush and the Koch brothers money, but they gain more credibility and be able to win again, and the Tea Party becomes, sadly for most Americans, the first 3rd party that might get enough votes to get the much sought matching funds... because when the government gives money to you it is good, but when they give it to the working poor that is bad...
>> ^Boise_Lib:
As someone who is surrounded by this everyday I have to say the madness will not stop.
Baggers are too entrenched for reality to have any effect at all.
lantern53says...I think Rush is right.
The Democrats are the party of Santa Claus. Vote Democrat, get free stuff.
KnivesOutYour sour grapes are so delicious. Your tears are like nectar.
I'm so full of your tears and your sadness and yet I still want more. Keep it come'n!>> ^lantern53:
I think Rush is right.
The Democrats are the party of Santa Claus. Vote Democrat, get free stuff.
lantern53says...Children prefer candy to work.
When Americans grow up, grow a pair, and accept responsibility, they will then save us from ourselves.
Until then, suffer the consequences. It's just too bad you have to drag us with you.
KnivesOutOH SO DELICIOUS>> ^lantern53:
Children prefer candy to work.
When Americans grow up, grow a pair, and accept responsibility, they will then save us from ourselves.
Until then, suffer the consequences. It's just too bad you have to drag us with you.
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