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Tea Party-backed contender Christine O'Donnell defeated establishment pick U.S. Rep. Mike Castle in the race for Delaware's Republican Senate nomination on Tuesday night.
It appears that the Tea Party/Palin candidates are doing a number on the established Republicans running in the primaries. Christie/McDonnell is one race. It shows me that the Republican Party is undergoing a schism of great magnitude. The more alternate candidates that Palin endorses and wins, the more power she, the tea party, the Koch Bros. and Dick Armey achieve. Neither the established republicans or the far right will back down. We'll have to see how much traction the far right maintains through the November elections and 2012. Mid term primaries are the lowest turnouts of all voting done so energized tea party members have leveraged their turnout in their favor. Whether they can leverage the numbers to make a difference in the actual elections in November remains to be seen and is probably a long shot. In any case, the current schism in the republican party bodes very well for Democratic political interests.
It appears that the Tea Party/Palin candidates are doing a number on the established Republicans running in the primaries. Christie/McDonnell is one race. It shows me that the Republican Party is undergoing a schism of great magnitude. The more alternate candidates that Palin endorses and wins, the more power she, the tea party, the Koch Bros. and Dick Armey achieve. Neither one will back down from the other. We'll have to see how much traction the far right maintains through the 10 elections and 2012. Mid term primaries are the lowest turnouts of all voting done so energized tea party members have leveraged their turnout in their favor. Whether they can leverage the numbers to make a difference in the actual elections in November remains to be seen. In any case, the current schism in the republican party bodes very well for Democratic political interests.
The Senate was ALWAYS a longshot, even Lefty Nate only gave the GOP a 25% chance of taking it.
The purge of the RINO's is a good thing, along with every other entrenched, corrupt player that has caused the financial mess we are in right now.
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