of the candidates are picked now, and, in some cases, it didn t involve tea parties candidates or candidates from outside the republican establishment. defeating the republican establishment candidates. you had it in alaska, had it in delaware and in other congressional races, as well. so, there is clearly something of a tug-of-war going on among those who are republican and even conservative to the right of republican. i do believe there will be it will be settled before november, that in the end, the republicans will win most if not all of these seats now sorts of in dispute among conservatives but i think the important thing is for the country as a whole to respond to this, and what the tea party is saying, and some of them, i agree, i mean, christine o donnell and others don t make a lot of sense, to independent voters and it is independent voters who both parties have to appeal to now. neither party on its own has enough to elect anybody, really. it is the independent voters who
but at any rate, talk to us about the maps we just saw. the washington race will be alt more in the a little more in the democratic direction. we can see some other ships moving favorably, but the trend remains the same. not a single republican seat is expected to switch at this point in time. several democratic seats are in the toss up category. and of course the big news is delaware. right now kristine o donnell is down by 11 points. it is a really important senate race and now it is a solid democratic. what happened in delaware? it was actually leaning republican. that s what i meant to say. it was the primary and a large part of the support came from activists who are really
i think the voters of delaware, more independents than democrats and more republicans than independents. i think they are go willing to give republicans a chance but they say this is fringe and this is extreme and that is the problem across the country. o donnell may be a bit too far and delaware delaware is not the state to nominate someone with a strong conservative message. when the republican party was the kind juan liked where the establishent wament was in chad everything was quiet, february 19th when rick santelli launched the tea party so to speak with his rant on tv, they lost by more than ten points in 2008. how to they are ahead in the national congressional route by 7 points. about a 16 point swing. coincided with the huge amount of tea party activism and all the upsets.
incumbent candidates. so much money that is funding the tea party clearly now is coming from outside of the republican establishment. some of it coming from i guess the healthcare industry some from the oil industry. they are all angry with barack obama. they overdosed with the anger at barack obama and it stirred up things to the point where i think the establishment has lost control and the tea party is now in control in terms of picking candidates and when i hear you talking about o donnell. it is amazing to me. o donnell has trouble with taxes. her academic credentials, paying for school, paying her own mortgage. someone with no record and when you start to talk policy obama is unamerican. she wants to do away with the education department. she is someone who says her jobs plan for america is simply cut the capital gains tax.
rescue workers over as they help people trapped by the storm. winds are taking down several buildings and trees. the storm injuring hundreds of people as rushing floodwaters race through several villages. a huge week in politics shaking up election predictions for november. and let s take a look at the late e week s map showing the senate seats up for grabs by the senate party. and let s look at the new projections from the rasmusson report .com. they are going from democrat to solid democrat after kristine o donnell wins the race. the co author of the book of how the tea party is fundamentally making our two-party system. i don t know why he is listed second and you are first as the author there, scott.