Some tea party candidates won. With a couple of exceptions, the more visible ones did not. Those who did won in conservative districts and they had a lot of external campaign money.
The republicans took a majority in the house, but not in the Senate. So to say that Tea Partiers were overwhelming elected doesn't reflect the reality of the election, only the spin on that election by the media. Regardless of what it looks like from where you sit, those who hold Tea Party views represent only a small minority of US voters. A vocal minority who have a really good funding and propaganda machine, but minority nonetheless. Extreme liberals also only represent a small minority. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's all well and good to say this now. > > But I remember that the United States people voted in the Republicans > overwhelmingly, and the Tea partiers especially. > Everyone said they shouldn't be in government, that they were racists, > extremist what have you. > > But they were voted in anyways ahead of more moderate Republicans > (let's just assume the Democrat candidates never had a chance). > > So now based on their own political decisions the US faces this > fallout, what has been learnt? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:341500 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
