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2012 the repudiation of the Tea Party?
Im mean hell Allen West will probably go down after the recount and Scott Brown the first Tea Party candidate to be elected lost.Linda McMahon though in the end tried to play independent tried to ride the Tea Party wave of 2010.Joe Walsh didnt win a second term. Michele Bachman and Steve King of Iowa, leaders of the tea-party caucus, almost lost.Two big ones inTodd Akin and Richard Murdock for thier anti-women remarks.
Other notables:
Chip Cravaack of Minnesota
Bobby Schilling of Illinois
Nan Hayworth of New York
Frank Guinta of New Hampshire
Ann Marie Buerkle of New York
Is the Tea Party out of flavor or no?
