Narrow tea party losses are wake-up call for Republicans
Rather than the humiliating defeats the establishment had expected, tea party candidates suffered narrow losses Tuesday despite being outgunned by opponents with far deeper financial pockets. In Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli II, the tea-party-aligned attorney general and GOP nominee for governor, lost by just 2.5 percentage points after polls had predicted a Democratic rout.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/narrow-tea-party-losses-are-wake-up-call-for-republicans/2013/11/09/9b26b124-47c3-11e3-bf0c-cebf37c6f484_story.html

Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!