What a difference two years can make.
The Tea Party, the unexpected star of the 2010 mid-term elections, suffered a bit of the sophomore blues in 2012. Some of its iconic figures were repudiated at the polls and others clung to their political lives.
And the outcome Tuesday night perplexed leaders of the feisty movement, who were eager to oust President Barack Obama and turn the Senate to Republican control.
The star of 2010, the Tea Party suffers some election setbacks in 2012 but remains determined
