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FILE: Nov. 5, 2013: A Tea Party member at a GOP event in Richmond, Va.(REUTERS)
After a long, unapologetic effort to defeat Tea Party and other so-called unelectable candidates in GOP primaries, the Washington establishment will likely need Tea Party voters in November to help swing several tight Senate races and win control of the upper chamber.
Republicans appear poised to win three of the net total six seats required to take the Senate. But they are locked in six other, too-close-to call contests in their effort to win the remaining three seats.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee on Friday dismissed the notion that party voters are not united behind their candidates.
Can you point to a race ? Its a false narrative, said group spokeswoman Brook Hougsen, who cited a recent George Washington University survey that shows Republicans with a 16-point advantage over Democrats (52-to-36 percent) in a generic poll on competitive Senate races.
Kevin Broughton, spokesman for the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, a political action committee, singled out a few races, particularly in Kansas and Mississippi, but suggested his troops will rally for the general election.
While Tea Party people and conservative activists might have a bad taste in their mouth, the goal is to keep Barack Obama from making more bad appointments to the federal appeals courts, he said. And the way you stop that is to take away (Nevada Sen.) Harry Reids Democratic majority and his nuclear option.
Broughton said they will focus on such grassroots efforts as get-out-the-vote, instead of buying TV or other media spots.
The establishment and its deep-pocket supporters made clear from the start of the 2014 election cycle that their goal was to field a full squad of electable candidates, thus avoiding past mistakes, and to weed out anybody who might get elected and undermine their legislative agenda.
Our job is to win a GOP majority, NRSC strategist Brad Dayspring said in terse November 2013 tweet.
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Topeka Sen. Pat Roberts has been a key player in Republican politics at the state and national level for nearly half a century, going back to 1967 when he first joined the staff of then-Sen. Frank Carlson, and later with former Rep. Keith Sebelius.
But now, at 78, Roberts faces the toughest re-election campaign of his career. His long years of experience in Washington have suddenly gone from being his biggest asset to perhaps his greatest liability.
It was an issue that his tea party challenger Milton Wolf hammered on relentlessly during the GOP primary, calling Roberts a Virginia Republican and claiming he spends more time at his home in suburban Washington than in Kansas.
And it's an issue that his main challenger in the general election, independent candidate Greg Orman, has occasionally alluded to without being so direct. After the national Republican Party sent consultants to Kansas to take over the Roberts campaign, for example, Orman commented wryly that he was glad some of Roberts' neighbors could come help him out.
Roberts has taken the criticism as a personal affront, as when he was asked about it during a debate at the Kansas State Fair.
I know more about Kansas than anybody else on this stage, Roberts said. I have walked with families in the rubble of Greensburg, I have stood with the farmers in the fields of dust during the recent drought, I've been in fields under water when the Missouri River flooded, I've been from corner to corner and border to border.
I am a fourth-generation Kansan, he added. I was born here, educated here, done my life's work here. Don't tell me I'm not from Kansas.
Early life and career
Roberts is indeed a fourth-generation Kansan. His great-grandfather, J.W. Roberts, founded the Oskaloosa Independent, which Roberts likes to point out was nearly destroyed during Quantrill's Raid in northeast Kansas in 1863.
Pat Roberts was born April 20, 1936, in Topeka. He grew up in Holton, where he attended high school and later attended Kansas State University, earning a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1958.
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BOSTON -- Mark Fisher, the tea-party Republican who was beaten handily by Charlie Baker in last week's gubernatorial primary, hasn't changed his mind much about the Republican nominee whom he has called "Democrat-lite" and "Democrat-heavy."
Fisher said he has vowed to "vote for the Republican" in the general election, but has yet to make up his mind whether to cast a ballot for Baker.
"It's a moving target. I'm going to wait and see if he moves back to the right, which would be a welcome thing, a welcome thing," Fisher told the News Service.
"My fear is that now he's in the general; he doesn't have a primary opponent; he'll move to track Democrat voters in the state, and that will be very troubling for me and all the other conservatives."
A Shrewsbury Republican who owns a metal-manufacturing company, Fisher was a newcomer to electoral politics who butted up against the establishment wing of the party and appeared on the primary ballot only after filing a lawsuit alleging improper vote-counting at the GOP convention in March.
During the primary, Fisher picked up more than 40,000 votes while Baker racked up more than 116,000. Fisher laid out a vision for a much more limited government. Baker, who has made a point of trying to appeal to all voters, avoided directly engaging with Fisher during the forums and debates where they appeared together.
"Charlie thanks Mr. Fisher for his spirited campaign," Baker spokesman Tim Buckley told the News Service in a statement.
"I've voted for candidates like Charlie, Gabriel Gomez, Scott Brown the second time around, having to hold my nose to do so, and other people who are in groups, tea party groups like myself who didn't vote for them and were critical of me voting for them," Fisher told the News Service. "It would be a similar thing with Charlie."
On the Democratic side, both primary challengers have endorsed the party's gubernatorial nominee Martha Coakley, with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Steven Grossman has been an outspoken backer of Coakley, in contrast to his outspoken criticism of her in the lead-up to the Sept. 9 vote.
Don Berwick, a champion of the liberal cause to put government in charge of providing all health insurance, has been a more measured Coakley supporter.
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