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The Water Cooler Title: Just 32% Of Tea Party Candidates Win From NBC's Alexandra Moe In the Senate, 10 candidates backed by the Tea Party ran and at least five were successful. (Race in Alaska has not yet been called.) In the House, 130 Tea Party-backed candidates ran, and just 40 so far have won. Identifying Tea Party candidates is undoubtedly inexact. Our criteria, generally, was to include anyone who has either been backed by a Tea Party group or has identified themselves as a member of the Tea Party movement. Toward the end of this cycle, however, seemingly every Republican was trying to associate themselves this way. One left off the list was Dino Rossi, despite Jim DeMint endorsing him, since Tea Party groups backed Clint Didier in the primary. A note to correct the record: After about 20 hours of crunching numbers, one of us on your First Read authors looked up at 4 am and heard MSNBC use a much higher number. We went back and checked, and the numbers are much lower. Here's a full list: SENATE - 10 TOTAL 5 WON - 50% of Tea Party candidates won 4 LOST - 40% of Tea Party candidates lost HOUSE - 130 TOTAL 40 WON - 31% of Tea Party candidates won 82 LOST - 63% of Tea Party candidates lost 8 UNDECIDED Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 3.
#1. To: Brian S (#0)
So when has accuracy ever been a factor with liberals?
shhh, Every thing I have read indicates the left "feels" they won and are doing just fine. Let's help their party remain unchanged.
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