Turns out, they would have needed more then two so say good bye to the whining excuses since your own establishment Republicans didn't pull out some races either. I am relly sick to death of their whining because thy didn't get the "perks" of chairfmanships. If not for us say goodbye to Marco, Toomey, and Johnson. They had written off Wisconsin completely untila TEA PARTY member decided to run and single handedly almost changed that election. They had written off WV so they can't lookto us for that either. And they may well have been responsible for a few lost votes with their hick ad. Colorado and Neveda might have been won with better ground games but they were too busy drolling over California.
And they were keenly aware of the anti-establishment mood, rarely engaging with Tea Party challengers, as Senate leaders did, fearful that any efforts to influence primary races could backfire. /i>
This is why the House now has a majority and the Senate does not. If they weren't so patrician and arrogant they'd take a cue from the House and from Hayley Barbour and how NOT to antagonize the very people you need the cooperation of who run the ground games.
You can blame part of it on stupid SC Republican primary voters who kept Lindsay Graham around. And the ones in AZ who kept John McCain around.
RINOs are never going to get us to where we need to be.