In a report for Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, political director Chuck Todd offered an obituary for the Tea Party based on a handful of expected primary losses and sympathized with Democrats hoping for weak Republican candidates in November: "Democrats are watching this Tea Party fade with disappointment....They were counting on a few bad Tea Party nominees to bail them out of a race or two, and as you can see, that might not happen this year." [Listen to the audio]

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This brings us back to the fact that the Tea Party is not an organized group

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UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN B [REPORTER]: Do you consider yourself a member of the Tea Party?

DAVID PERDUE [SENATE CANDIDATE, R-GA]: Well, tell me what that is. I mean, you know, I have many ideals that we agree on.

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The "typical" Republican Party candidate is more conservative -further to the right- than ever before in our lifetime.

Example: All but extinct are Pro-Choice Republicans candidates*.

* Romney had to switch to Pro-Life just to get the nomination.

Get fired-up, Pete, the GOP is movin' in the "right" direction!