on the filibuster

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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.

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.