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The direct impact is pretty obviously. you can see it in indiana and missouri. you had two candidates who would have the no won republican primaries in the pre-obama era. they won republican primaries, behaved like fringe candidates, and scared off fringe voters. but the indirect impact is seeing candidates like mourdock and akin and back in 2010, sharron angle start winning these primaries, it told candidates who would be strong republican candidates, the party can t deliver me the nomination, and made them sit on the sidelines. or took candidates who would be strong candidates and decided to run anyway and made them weak candidates. a good example was tommy thompson in wisconsin. should be the dream nominee. but to make sure the republican party base didn t revolt against him, he and went told the tea party group this year he wanted to phase out medicare. well, it was taped, popped up in the general election, you lose because of that. think of scott brown in ....
So that directly and indirectly affected what happened last night. the direct impact is pretty obviously. you can see it in indiana and missouri. you had two candidates who would have the no won republican primaries in the pre-obama era. they won republican primaries, behaved like fringe candidates, and scared off fringe voters. but the indirect impact is seeing candidates like mourdock and akin and back in 2010, sharron angle start winning these primaries, it told candidates who would be strong republican candidates, the party can t deliver me the nomination, and made them sit on the sidelines. or took candidates who would be strong candidates and decided to run anyway and made them weak candidates. a good example was tommy thompson in wisconsin. should be the dream nominee. but to make sure the republican party base didn t revolt against him, he and went told the tea party group this year he wanted to phase out medicare. well, it was taped, popped up in the general election, you lose ....
A purity crusade within the party. that means the anything who wreaks of the establishment, anyone who voted for t.a.r.p., cannot win a republican primary. so that directly and indirectly affected what happened last night. the direct impact is pretty obviously. you can see it in indiana and missouri. you had two candidates who would have the no won republican primaries in the pre-obama era. they won republican primaries, behaved like fringe candidates, and scared off fringe voters. but the indirect impact is seeing candidates like mourdock and akin and back in 2010, sharron angle start winning these primaries, it told candidates who would be strong republican candidates, the party can t deliver me the nomination, and made them sit on the sidelines. or took candidates who would be strong candidates and decided to run anyway and made them weak candidates. a good example was tommy thompson in wisconsin. should be the dream nominee. but to make sure the republican party base didn t revolt ....
joy, we find 2010 in the midterms, the republicans were running these extremist candidates, people that did not have a chance on the national stage, yet they seem to have not learned their lesson. these are two examples of you take these fringe candidates, they re not going to win. i think if you listen to the noise on the right, there s always been this sense if we can just stop running these wishy washy rhinos, we could win. the closed loop is so sealed on the right, i don t think there s a self-awareness. there was a clammer to get these pure conservative candidates on the ballot and it came from the tea party. so the tea party was a blessing and curse for the republicans. it energized older voters, who didn t like barack obama. but the down side to the tea party is they are insisting what they see as conservative candidates and are married to the religious right. these guys like murdoch didn t ....
National democrats are amoral when it comes to who they re going to support. their primary driver is they want somebody who can win. so with just a couple days left, the inclination is to get behind them and it looks like national republicans did put some money into the akin race. joy, we find 2010 in the midterms, the republicans were running these extremist candidates, people that did not have a chance on the national stage, yet they seem to have not learned their lesson. these are two examples of you take these fringe candidates, they re not going to win. i think if you listen to the noise on the right, there s always been this sense if we can just stop running these wishy washy rhinos, we could win. the closed loop is so sealed on the right, i don t think there s a self-awareness. there was a clammer to get these ....