The opponent there sounds like he'd make Ted Cruzer seem tame by comparison, if he'd gotten into the Senate.

not win in the general election. Actually I see this as a win for all Americans, after the games Ted Cruz has played we do not need to support him with more people thinking the same way.

Dems stand a better chance in a general election against the extremely crazy Repubs while the not as crazy ones are tougher candidates because they seem moderate by comparison.

Despite what they say, the extremists will still vote Republican in November instead of staying home in protest. These not as crazy Republican candidates can rely on their base and low information independents to win in November.

Sort of a subliminal "push poll" to maintain the PTB's hegemony over the masses.

of their contested offices with mainstream and incumbent candidates. There are no major tea bagger candidates to help turn those Republican offices to Democratic in November.

Also, the biggest upset was Cantor losing, and Brat had really not received any tea party help. The mainstream Republican machine is still rolling. The tea baggers are becoming irrelevant - except for the one in Mississippi who doesn't want to count black votes! He is reinforcing Democratic branding of the Republican Party. which doesn't hurt politically.

The bad news for Democrats is they will be in real battles in November. The Republican Party maintained the status quo, the voters held up their end of it. The Democrats aren't facing any extreme crackpots, just old school Republicans.

The pundits say base turnout will determine results, so advantage Republicans.

The pundits say.

By the time I came back out my interest was gone.
But for the life of me I could not figure out what he meant.
Since it was a local (statewide) show, yesterday really had no effect on our state.

Best I can figure you can listen to a pod cast of the show tomorrow here: http://iowapublicradio.org/programs/river-river

and they just decided to fit whatever happened into that.

if the teabagger had won they would be talking about how much support teabaggers have and all that shit.

the truth is this is a very conservative state where the teabagger has a very good chance of winning in the GE unlike some other states .

those who would be hurt the most would be the black population so they made sure the teabagger who would fuck them over even worse didn't have a chance of getting into office.