Wednesday afternoon: With only one race left to be called, our Tea Party Score Card lists 5 Tea Party wins and 4 losses...
There are scores of Tea Party-backed candidates running for all sorts of offices across the country, but we've picked the 10 whose races we think are most worth monitoring tonight.
Current tally:
- Tea Party winners: 5 (Paul, Toomey, Rubio, Scott, Bachmann)
- Tea Party losers: 4 (O'Donnell, Paladino, Angle, Buck)
- To be decided: 1 (Alaska Senate)
SENATE
Alaska Senate (77% of expected vote reported)
- Joe Miller (R) 34%
- Scott McAdams (D) 24%
- Lisa Murkowski and other write-ins 41%
Colorado Senate (90% of expected vote reported)
- Ken Buck (R) 47%
- Michael Bennet (D) 48% (WINNER)
Nevada Senate (99% of expected vote reported)
- Sharron Angle (R) 45%
- Harry Reid (D) 50% (WINNER)
- Scott Ashjian (I) 1%
- None of the above 2%
Pennsylvania Senate (91% of expected vote reported)
- Pat Toomey (R) 51% (WINNER)
- Joe Sestak (D) 49%
Kentucky Senate (97% of expected vote reported)
- Rand Paul (R) 56% (WINNER)
- Jack Conway (D) 44%
Florida Senate (91% of expected vote reported)
- Marco Rubio (R) 49% (WINNER)
- Kendrick Meek (D) 20%
- Charlie Crist (I) 30%
Delaware Senate (99% of expected vote reported)
- Christine O'Donnell (R) 40%
- Chris Coons (D) 56% (WINNER)
GOVERNOR
New York Gubernatorial (86% of expected vote reported)
-
Carl Paladino (R) 34%
- Andrew Cuomo (D) 61% (WINNER)
Florida Gubernatorial (90% of expected vote reported)
- Rick Scott (R) 49% (WINNER)
- Alex Sink (D) 48%
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Minnesota House -- 6th Congressional District (100% of expected vote reported)
- Michele Bachmann (R) 52% (WINNER)
- Tarryl Clark (D) 40%
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