Chris Christie, hated by the Tea Party...WINS in Blue State New Jersey. Ken Cuccinelli, promoted by the Tea Party...LOSES in Purple State Virginia. Dean Young, promoted by the Tea Party...LOSES in Red State Alabama.
The election will become a referendum on Obamacare. Cuchinelli lost by 3% inspite of being abandoned by the country club set and being out spent more than ten to one.
This is the mindset that virtually guarantees Republican losses in 2014/2016. Unless we wake up and pay attention to these things, we are destined to become obsolete. I am reminded of the steel bubble that blinded many to the Romney loss, it seems no lessons were learned. Those who do not learn from the past, are destined to repeat it.
So the theory is that the election was referendum on ObamaCare, and that the overwhelmingly unpopular ObamaCare LOST because it didn't win by a lot....? Does that mean that ObamaCare is so unpopular that the Democrats will take back the House, but not by very much?
No sir the theory is that Cuchinelli lost for two reasons. The first was that the Nothern portion of Virginia is home to one of the larger concentrations of federal government workers in the country, and secondly because the Rove portion of the Republican party, where a lot of the big fund raisers reside, largely ignored his candidacy allowing the Democratic candidate to outspend Cuchinelli by more than ten to one. The Cuchinelli campaign spent less on it's gubernatorial run than is spent in many large city mayoral campaigns. Sadly there is little substantive difference between the Rove faction of the Republican party and the Clinton machine on most issues.
Sure because being outspent 10 to one in a campaign with almost all negative ads misrepresenting the truth proves that the Tea Party is defeated. Wonder how those "missing ballots" in Fairfax County that magically appeared on the eve of the recount in the Attorney General's race where the democrat is down split....
Ted Cruz, fairly unknown but endorsed by the TEA Party, comes from nowhere to win over Texas Lt. Gov, GOP heavily funded and supported candidate for Senate in '12. New Jersey is not in Texas. Nor are Virginia and Alabama. And no GOP Prez is going to win without Texas.
How do you determine that. Maybe the Texas GOP has been regretting, but not the Texas that elected Cruz.