[Servant of the Cross]

Interesting numbers and names. Of the six states where Romney did significantly better, only two of the six candidates could be called "Tea Party" - Mourdock and Akin. And it is safe to say they each screwed the pooch themselves. It was not their Tea Party affiliation that did them in.

The others are just the tired old GOP/Karl Rove regurgitated safe names - Hoeckstra, Mack, Berg and Rehberg. If anything, this says nuts to Karl.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Except that Akin was NOT TEA PARTY at all. He was a six term congressional incumbent, and only tried to claim tea party status after he had been ushered into the General Election on the strength of McCaskill voters.

BTW, Akin’s communications consultant was a guy who was with Newt early, then bolted to Perry, then bolted to Newts super pac, so after going oh for 3, he landed with Akin, and ended up oh for 4 in 2012.

Guaran-damn-tee he made half a mill or more last year, and will be employed for 2014 if not already.

[ansel12]

only two of the six candidates could be called "Tea Party" - Mourdock and Akin

Akin was not the tea party candidate, Michelle Bachmann gave us Akin.

The Tea Party Express and Governor Palin supported the female candidate, Steelman.

Brunner received the support of FreedomWorks.

[painter]

Akin

Akin was NOT the tea party Canidate!