Missouri's Akin wasn't the tea party choice, he was Michelel Bachmann's and Huckabee's.
I think that after looking at Delaware, it was conceded that Castle would not have won, and in Nevada Palin didn't endorse Angle.
We had a history making victory in 2010, largely because of the tea party, yet the GOPe is recreating it as a loss caused by the tea party.