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Originally Posted by SOREHOOF
There really is nothing unusual about a Dem. winning a House seat in N.Y. is there? In that particular case the Republican was far more liberal than the Dem. and had to bow out. The "tea bagger" was a relative unknown who almost won. If I remember right the Repub stayed on the ballot. I may be wrong about the last one.
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The unusualness is that that seat has always been Republican for like 40 years.
The Republican candidate bowed out when the Tea Party candidate appeared (who I think appeared on the ballot as an "independent", but not sure), and put support behind the Democrat, who then won.
The Tea Party (there are various Bagger groups, and a bit of infighting, so that kind of unfairly paints them all with the same name, there is not just one group of "Tea Party" people, there are several) - the TP intends to put up candidates against Republicans in the primaries this fall. We'll see how it works out.