After former Alaska governor Sarah Palin endorsed T.W. Shannon, he closed that 35-point deficit to single digits in a poll taken four days later. He leads now. Palin has a gift that gets TEA Party candidates elected. She did the same thing in the 2010 mid-term elections.
Palin and Cruz rally behind T.W. Shannon, rising black star | MSNBC
Shannon surges in new Okla. Senate poll | TheHill
I think her latest comments (about waterboarding terrorists), whether taken out of context or meant as a joke, hurt the Tea Party by pushing rightwing image instead of central Constitutional focus that is universal to all parties.
The rightwing are kind of funny.
It seems they have to start off very far right to include the extremes to get their votes and participation.
And then move toward center while trying to keep these people from dropping out.
If they start in the center, they chase away their far right voters they need from the church bases.
So we are stuck with this weird system where the left starts out broadly to buy the black/green/pink vote etc. and then sells them out while trying to keep their votes
as "better than the alternative"
And the rightwing does similar, so the two parties scapegoat each other for votes,
keep the voters divided, and end up with compromises in the middle no one really wants.
very strange, if we keep doing the same thing, expecting different results?
