i was interested by the alabama race. what does that say, the tea party favor losing there, an intraparty fight within the republican party to have their sort of, you know, mainstream republican candidate win? >> westerll, certainly a lot of money in. taking a job outside of congress opened up a seat for a republican to basically carry on the flag. what we saw was the tea party put up a candidate who actually almost won. and this was a candidate, miguel who was a birther. who thought that president obama was not board in the united states. this would have been very embarrassing for the republican party. however, they have put enough money into the race, the republican establishment candidate won. he will go on in december to face a democrat. but look, this is a republican state. >> is this a pattern we're likely to see in the midterms coming up with the republican establishment trying to squelch