Analysis: How Did Tea Party Do It?

• 1. Closed primary
• 2. Extremely organized
• 3. Worked the churches
• 4. Common Core
• 5. Obamacare
• 6. Gay marriage ruling (possible)
• 7. Anti-discrimination ordinance in CdA (possible)
• 8. Door-to-door campaigning
• 9. Voter confusion (over avalanche of election material) + apathy
• 10. Fliers from faux Reagan Republicans & copy-cat KCRCC