can get candidates elected they are not a party. they are certainly not a movement but they are a voice we have to continue to take seriously because they represent some portion of the american public that has extreme anxiety about the 2008 election results. right now it is a series of meetings of people wearing hats. yes. melissa harris lacewell, thank you kindly. russell simmons on building a mosque near ground zero, near his home, ahead. so, ah, your seat good? got the mirrors all adjusted? you can see everything ok?
cox who won nearly 24% of the primary vote. not that last night was a total loss for the tea party. some of their candidates won and they had a big night in missouri, running not against the candidate but health care reform. a landslide margin missouri voters passed a referendum protecting them from having health care insurance. repealing the portion of the president s health care reform plan that requires individuals to carry insurance if it had the force of law it does not which was decided in the civil law. in kansas david powell ran against health care reform in his campaign to become state insurance commissioner. he lost to the incumbent who has been implementing health care reform. let s turn to melissa harris lacewell. professor of politics and african american studies at princeton. thank you for your time,
hookstra for sitting out a vote on repealing health care reform. not that last night was a total loss few the tea party. some of their candidates won. they had a big night in missouri by a landslide margin of nearly 3 to 1, missouri voters passed a referendum that would protect them from having health care insurance. literally. it would repeal the portion of the president s health care reform plan that requires individuals to carry health insurance. if it had the force of law, which it does not, which was kind of decided during the civil war. still in kansas, tea party candidate david powell also ran against health care reform and his campaign to become state insurance commissioner. he lost to sandy praguer. let s go to our guest, contributor to the nation magazine. thank you for your time no night, professor.
professor. nice to see you. it is a busy day. it is. it is a good one. i would agree. on the subject of what happened yesterday. what happened yesterday? well, you know, i think what we saw with the tea party or what we are seeing is precisely what you should expect from a party out of power. look, democrats went through the same sort of anxieties and stresses. when a party loses the white house what it tends to do in the midterm is pull to the extreme. the party is trying to figure out what its voice is, what it has to offer. it pulls to the extreme. what it finds out is like all of us political science professors teach sort of in the first week of class, we teach this normal curve. about the distribution of american voters and it explains why we end up with a two-party system that is really pretty moderate because most people s opinions are kind of towards the
elected, they re not a party. they re certainly not a movement yet. but they are a voice that we have to continue to take seriously because they represent some portion of the american public that does have extreme anxiety about the 2008 election results. right now it s just a series of meetings of people wearing hats. melissa harris lacewell, thank you kindly. thanks. the reverse of not in my backyard. russell simmons on building a mosque near ground zero, near his home ahead. sing something? like 2 pairs of glasses for $99.99 at sears optical. now includes bifocals at the same great price for a limited time. hurry in to sears optical today and don t miss a thing. [ both screaming ] i got into one of the most expensive schools in the country! [ male announcer ] when stress gives you heartburn with headache. alka-seltzer gives you relief fast. [ low male ] plop, plop. [ high male ] fizz, fizz.