Barbara Boxer Got More Votes than Ten Tea Party Senate Candidates Combined

Barbara Boxer Got More Votes than Ten Tea Party Senate Candidates Combined
Jon Wiener


California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer defeated challenger Carly Fiorina by a ten-point margin on Tuesday, winning a total of 3.7 million votes, more than the combined vote total of ten Tea Party senate candidates.

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Joe Miller in Alaska got only 68,000 votes. Sharon Angle in Nevada got only 321,000 votes.

O’Donnell, Miller and Angle lost their elections—along with Linda McMahon in Connecticut -- but even the Tea Party candidates who won didn’t get very many votes compared to Boxer. Rand Paul in Kentucky was elected with 752,000 votes; Boxer got five times that many. She got twenty times more than Tea Party winner John Hoeven in North Dakota, ten times more than Mike Crapo in Idaho.

The biggest Tea Party vote getter nationally among Senate candidates was Marco Rubio in Florida, with 2.6 million votes – but that was a million votes less than Boxer.

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