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Originally Posted by RichieLion
I agree, to a point, but those "independent" candidates mostly just fall in line with the leaders of the party. We've seen it over and over.
Really the only recent examples of challenges to the status quo has been the Tea Party candidates who've won election. Maybe not all of them, but enough to shake the foundations of the Republican establishment.
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You got to be kidding. Tea Party candidates cost the Republicans control of the senate in 2010: Christine O'Donnell in DE, Sharon Angle in NV, Buck in CO, one in WV (name escapes me), and they're going to cost the Republicans the White House in 2012. And don't forget that loser Joe Miller in Alaska who lost to a write-in candidate.