The tea party isn’t just losing; it’s losing badly

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More from the Tea Party "losing" news, Joni Ernst wins the Senate primary in Iowa as Tea Party favorite:


Iowa Republican lawmaker Joni Ernst won her party's Senate primary race Tuesday night, after pulling ahead in a crowded field thanks to clever campaign ads and support from Tea Party favorites.

The 43-year-old Ernst, a state senator, handily won the nomination, receiving enough votes to avoid a nominating convention in the five-way race. She'll face Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley in the November general election to replace retiring Democrat Tom Harkin, who held the seat for 30 years.

Ernst attracted national attention after she released an ad in March playfully suggesting her experience on her family’s farm castrating pigs will translate to her cutting “pork” in Congress, pledging to “make ‘em squeal.”

The attention helped her languishing fundraising efforts and made her the frontrunner for the first open Senate seat in the state in three decades.

Ernst told a crowd of cheering supporters after being declared the winner that she is running to represent "Iowa values" in Washington.

“I’m running for Senate because Iowa means everything to me," she said.

Ernst also spoke to the supporters of her competitors, urging them to seek common ground to come together to defeat Braley.
 
And more from the Tea Party "losing badly", Chris McDaniel locked with Cochran in a tight lead against the incumbent.



One of the closest and most dramatic Senate races in the country took another turn Tuesday. Conservative insurgent Chris McDaniel narrowly defeated Thad Cochran in Mississippi but failed to top the 50 percent threshold required to avoid a runoff.

With 49.6 percent of the vote to Cochran’s 48.9 percent, McDaniel and the six-term lawmaker will lsquare off again in three weeks.

If the order of finish holds, Cochran will be the first incumbent senator to lose a re-election bid this cycle.

“This is a historic moment in this state’s history,” McDaniel told supporters at his election night rally, but added, “Our fight is not over. … Whether it’s tomorrow or three weeks from now, we will stand victorious in this race.” Cochran did not address supporters at the end of the night.

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Tsing Tao said:
And more from the Tea Party "losing badly", Chris McDaniel locked with Cochran in a tight lead against the incumbent.



One of the closest and most dramatic Senate races in the country took another turn Tuesday. Conservative insurgent Chris McDaniel narrowly defeated Thad Cochran in Mississippi but failed to top the 50 percent threshold required to avoid a runoff.

With 49.6 percent of the vote to Cochran’s 48.9 percent, McDaniel and the six-term lawmaker will lsquare off again in three weeks.

If the order of finish holds, Cochran will be the first incumbent senator to lose a re-election bid this cycle.

“This is a historic moment in this state’s history,” McDaniel told supporters at his election night rally, but added, “Our fight is not over. … Whether it’s tomorrow or three weeks from now, we will stand victorious in this race.” Cochran did not address supporters at the end of the night.

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The left wing, the GOP establishment (which backed Thad with 12 million smackers), and the MSM fear the tea party because they are a direct threat to the status quo. They have done their best to intimidate through IRS, to demonize by taking a very few bad actors and portraying the entire mindset as racist and extremist, and essentially try and tell the country it is a failed movement, but yet they are still here, they are making gains, and they are a factor. Wake up, Rove.
 
Well, if there was a primary election that could prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that Covertibility is completely full of horseshit with this thread, it is the fact that Eric Cantor just lost.
 
This thread by covertibility should be framed, as the best fade in the history of ET, since posting, the Tea Party has locked in one major victory after another, including knocking off Eric Cantor. The only call ive seen on ET that was worse than this was the "Housing Rolling Along" thread where covertibility was saying there was no bubble in housing in 2006.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...da5d20-f092-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html

Covertibility said:
The tea party isn’t just losing; it’s losing badly

Last night, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) decisively beat his tea party challenger by 24 percentage points. It's the latest big beat for the tea party, and further proof of a growing trend. While the tea party has been successful when pushing candidates to the right in open-seat Republican primaries, it hasn't had any luck kicking out GOP incumbents this year. And its candidates really haven't come close.

In Idaho on Tuesday, Rep. Mike Simpson easily beat his tea party opponent, Bryan Smith. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, former chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, won 59 percent of the vote in his March primary. His closest challenger, Rep. Steve Stockman -- who vanished to Russia for part of the campaign -- won 19 percent of the vote. Dwayne Stovall, whose claim to fame is his "Turtle Soup" campaign ad, won 11 percent of the vote.

In Georgia, former secretary of state Karen Handel, endorsed by Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz and a handful of conservative organizations, did not make it into the Republican primary runoff. Reps. Phil Gingrey and Paul Broun, also tea party favorites, weren't even close to making the runoff.

Earlier in May, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) beat his tea party challenger, J.D. Winteregg, by 59 percentage points.

On June 3, however, the tea party will have another chance to put an establishment politician out of work. Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi and his tea party opponent, Chris McDaniel, have been battling for months, and it's a far closer race than the incumbent primaries that have already been decided. Cochran, matching the Republican incumbents who have come before him, has the support of nearly everyone in the old party guard. McDaniel, matching the tea party challengers who have come before him, doesn't. But, he does have the endorsement and financial backing of the Club for Growth and a few other tea party groups. In Kansas, incumbent Pat Roberts is also facing opposition from the right.

In McConnell's victory speech Tuesday, he said of Bevin, “He made me a stronger candidate." That's one way to look at it -- McConnell has definitely had a chance to hone his arguments in advance of what could be a bracing race against Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes. There must be a cheaper way to take a refresher course in Campaigning 101, especially for a senator who has been in office for nearly 30 years. And there definitely should be a cheaper way for tea party Republicans to learn that running against Republican incumbents hasn't been working for them.

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Source --The tea party was an important factor in the 2010 elections, but there's evidence in the poll that their support may be waning. Today, just 15 percent of Americans say they are supporters of the tea party movement - the lowest since CBS News began asking about the tea party in February 2010.

The movement may be losing some of its core constituency -- Republicans. Thirty-two percent of self-identified Republicans now consider themselves supporters of the tea party - down 10 points from February and a decline of 23 points from July 2010, the summer before the Republican Party took control of the House of Representatives. The percentage of Republicans who identify as tea party supporters is now among the lowest in CBS News polls.

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How will the Teadiots explain the losses? Was Stupid taken out of the drinking water or something?
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