The High Price of Tea

My guess is that conservatives won't spend a ton of time second-guessing themselves after a big electoral win last night, but the fact of the matter is that by putting forward a lot of hard-right nominees Republicans appear to have left a few Senate seats on the table. In some cases, such as Florida and Kentucky, they got their hard-right nominee and also won the seat. But then there's Delaware and Nevada and West Virginia. And there's your Senate majority.

It's interesting that Republicans seem to have fared so much better in the House. I've heard it hypothesized that since these were lower profile races, it was easier for challengers to fly under the radar screen and not attract the kind of scrutiny that undid Sharon Angle. It's easier for a House candidate to be a kind of generic "alternative" to the incumbent.