Our local TEA Party was a little weak on picking out local level candidates, luckily, folks were smart enough to filter out some liberals on their own.
Tea Party candidates are not all good, such as Dan Maes for governor here in CO, but by and large these grass roots efforts are making a huge difference in energizing the public. Ken Buck beat the GOP party choice of Jane Norton and others have done well, such as Cory Gardner and Ryan Frazer.
Colorado was turned purple to blue over the past six years but it should be moving back to red this year.