Tuesday's midterm election was the expected bloodbath for Democrats in the House, which Republicans took back with a commanding margin. But the GOP fell well short of its ambition to recapture the Senate as well. And despite the triumphalism of the Tea Party movement in the midterms, it could well be that the two parties would be now be tied in the Senate – if not for the Tea Party's attraction to candidates with religious fundamentalist streaks.
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