Shock Tea-Party Wins Put GOP at Serious Risk of Losing the Northeast for Generations

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Tuesday September 21, 2010 · 11:00 AM PDT

2010/09/21 · 11:00

Republicans in Delaware and New York Face November Rout After Far-Right Candidates Backed by Tea Party Movement Score Stunning Upsets in Respective Primaries for Senate and Governor; Rightward March Puts Northeast Republicans on Endangered Species List in a Fiercely Moderate-to-Liberal Region of the Nation Already Dominated by Democrats

NOTE TO READERS: After repeatedly attempting since 11:00 a.m. EDT today to post my latest column -- already delayed by the crash of my home computer -- on the stunning upset victories by Tea Party-backed candidates in last week's GOP primaries in Delaware and New York, only to be repeatedly thwarted by an HTML problem here on DKos that I've been unable to resolve, I've given up and instead inviting you to read the full article on my home site by clicking onto the URL below. My apologies for any inconvenience that the delays have caused.

-- Skeeter Sanders

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Republicans are in a heady, almost gleeful, state of mind as the final campaign toward the November 2 midterm elections gets under way in earnest.

For the first time since the 1930s, more people cast ballots in the Republican primaries than in the Democratic primaries, and there is a far higher level of enthusiasm and willingness to vote among Republicans this year, as anger over the sour economy continues to trump nearly every other issue. Historically, such anger over bad economic times has been bad news for the party in control of the White House and Congress -- in this case, the Democrats.

But Republicans shouldn't pop the bubbly just yet. In fact, they need to be seriously worried about the party's long-term electoral survival in the one region of the country where Republican officeholders are a shrinking minority: The Northeast. . .

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