Tea party victors won with few votes - Kasie Hunt
A cautionary note for the Tea Party fans… It’s ain’t over ‘til it’s over. Perhaps the sane center will prevail instead of the Tea Party.
Surprise tea party candidates are generating countless headlines, but most have won GOP nods for statewide office with less than 8 percent of the eligible vote — and it could hurt the Republican Party in November, according to a new analysis out Thursday.
Less than 6 percent of the electorate, on average, nominated the statewide tea party candidates, according to American University researcher Curtis Gans, in a report for the Center for the Study of the American Electorate.