While Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans have bragged about their desire to destroy the so called Tea Party, or their own conservative GOP base, even their own polls are demonstrating how they may have over-reached and may pay the price by failing to capture a Senate majority this year.
"This infighting has taken its toll," said Amy Walter, a national political analyst for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. Republicans "are not as enthusiastic as they were in 2010. Even they are a little bit disillusioned by what's been happening over the last couple years."
That also means Republican candidates are not getting the benefit of the doubt among independent voters as they did in 2010, Walter added....