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christine o'donnell, joe miller and sharon engle, tea party favorites, earned nominations instead.reme for the states they have been running in. tea party candidates have been coming up short leading to ed had lines that suggests the tea party is done. that might very well be the case but not necessarily for the reasons being commonly discussed. they have been winning because they have fully embraced the tea party platform. they have drited so far to the right that they are no longer republicans in name only. conservative voters have been stripped of that fundamental reason for casting protest votes. >> i think the tea party has brought great energy to our political process. they are not that big of a difference between what you all call the tea party and your average, conservative republican. >> as the speaker of the house pointed out, tea-party backed candidates may have lost but their ideas team to have won. they have successfully moved the republican party to the right. that was its genesis, entire reason for existence. that's why i have a tea party now. what is next for groups