Tea Party

Last Night's Tea Party Winners And Losers

Christina Bellantoni and Evan McMorris-Santoro | June 9, 2010, 1:17PM

NV-SEN candidate Sharron Angle (R)

You win some, you lose some. The tea party movement - scattered across the country and without a unified message, leader or even Web site - scored several big victories in last night's Super Duper Tuesday elections. But in several races, they fell short.

What does it all mean? The Republicans are probably going to continue reaching out to tea party activists who have energy and are helping with their quest to take back Congress. But as we saw with Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT), it's not just the Democrats the tea party is after. Republicans are fair game in primary elections.

Here's TPM's scorecard of how tea partiers fared last night.

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