Tea-Party, Ross Perot... This was a debate in early October:

At least in the Senate races, the Tea Party may well prove to be this year's Ross Perot, splitting the Right to give the Left victory:

 

Item 1: Delaware would have been an automatic R with Castle. Likely to be a D now.

Item 2: Any "Republican" would have turned Nevada into an "R". Instead, it's a toss-up.

Item 3: Any serious Republican might have turned Connecticut into an "R" after Dodd's Fannie Mae issue

Item 4: Alaska was an automatic "R" with Murkowski. The Tea Party candidate may lose

Item 5: Florida's Charlie Crist would have been a shoo-in "R" before the Tea Party went for Rubio

Item 6: Kentucky would have gone to any Republican. Now Rand Paul is fighting for survival

Item 7: Barbara Boxer could have lost to a good Republican candidate as opposed to a newcomer

 

So, the Tea Party may well end up handing the Senate back to the Democrats the way Perot handed the White House to Clinton by taking away the angry Republicans from GHW Bush.

 

The only explanation as to why the Democrats are electorally worried about the Tea Party anger, is perhaps that it carried on to giving the Congress to Gingrich and co in 1994, and in this cycle, that could mean that the anger would carry to 2012 and go beyond the Congress and topple the  White House.

 

Guedy