Everybody knew the media would spin this election as a Tea Party loss if any Republican candidate lost a Senate seat election. Predictably they’re focusing on the losses of Angle and O’Donnell. Since those two women lost, the Tea Party is a failure.
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I’m a political junkie, I can’t help myself. I’ve looked at the numbers in the Senate and Governor’s races in Pennsylvania, where I lived for 24 of my 43 years. And the numbers are very interesting.
If you look at the county-by-county breakdown for the Senate race, almost the entire state is Red or Pink. (Pink signifies a narrow Republican victory.) The only blue counties are around Pittsburg and Philadelphia where you expect Democrats to do well. (Lackawanna is the weird exception.) Even some traditionally Democrat counties like Cumberland, Dauphin and Lehigh voted for Tea-Party backed candidate Pat Toomey.
