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Originally Posted by Riot
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.
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Here's the scoop Riot. Hoffman ran as a Conservative.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/ny...rict.html?_r=1
The Repub. got 6% of the vote after she bowed out. There is no such Party as the "Tea Party" yet. Just a lot of people (like myself) who feel both parties are running this country into the ground with endless spending with no way to pay for it except more spending. Obama says when you can't pay the mortgage you shouldn't blow a bunch of money in Vegas, but that is exactly what he himself is doing. Yet another case of O saying one thing then doing the opposite