Victories Suggest Wider Appeal of Tea Party

New York Times by Michael Cooper | Nov. 3, 2010 (News)

The Tea Party victories by Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida underscored the extent to which Republicans and Democrats alike may have underestimated the power of the Tea Party, a loosely-affiliated, at times ill-defined, coalition of grass-roots libertarians and disaffected Republicans. Full Story »

Posted by Jon Mitchell - via Patrick LaForge, Nicholas Kristof, Google News (U.S.), Umbreen Bhatti (t), John Rueschenberg (t), Tobie Openshaw (f)

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Subjects: U.S., Politics
Topics: U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Democrats, Republicans, Other Parties, Obama Administration, Midterm Elections
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Posted by: Posted by Jon Mitchell - Nov 2, 2010 - 6:19 PM PDT
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Edited by: Jon Mitchell - Nov 3, 2010 - 8:55 AM PDT
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 by Jon Mitchell - Nov. 3, 2010

I think this reeks of a search-optimized headline that doesn't accurately describe reality. Yes, the Tea Party-friendly candidates mentioned in the first paragraph won their elections, but the ones in the third, who were some of the most talked-about Tea Party names, got stomped.

I think the real story here is much more interesting, but much harder to write. What happened to this "year of the woman" Tea Party momentum? The male Tea Party darlings won (mostly), but the female ones, the ones who got the lion's share of the media attention by far, they all lost. What's up with that, Tea Party?

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