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Charles S. Bullock, III, is the Richard Russell Professor of Political Science and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia. His most recent books are the fourth edition of The New Politics of the Old South (co-edited with Mark Rozell), Georgia Politics in a State of Change (co-authored with Keith Gaddie), Redistricting: The Most Political Activity in America and The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South (co-authored with Keith Gaddie), winner of the V. O. Key Award as the best book published on Southern Politics in 2009.
Chapter 1 The 2010 Elections
Charles S. Bullock, III
Part 1: Sarah Palin's Mama Grizzlies
Chapter 2. Mama Grizzly Nearly Trapped: New Hampshire's Republican Senate Primary
Dante J. Scala
Chapter 3. Sacrificing Electoral Viability for Ideological Purity: Christine O'Donnell and the Delaware Senate Race
Daniel C. Reed
Chapter 4. Nevada: The Tea Party Takes on Harry Reid but from the Wrong Angle
Ted G. Jelen
Chapter 5. "A Deep Blue Hole"? California, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Midterm Elections
Amy Widestrom and Christopher Dennis
Part 2: Tea Party Favorites
Chapter 6. Florida: A Plummeting Economy, Tea Parties, and Palin Give GOP a Clean Sweep
Susan A. MacManus with the assistance of David J. Bonanza and Mary L. Moss
Chapter 7. Randslide: Tea Party Success in the Establishment's Backyard
Joel Turner and Scott Lasley
Chapter 8. Ron Johnson: The Accidental Tea Partier
Geoffrey Peterson
Chapter 9. The Pennsylvania Senate Race: Toomey's Time
Stanley P. Berard
Chapter 10. Colorado: The Centennial State Bucks the National Trend
M. Jean Kingston
Chapter 11. The 2010 West Virginia Senate Race
Robert Rupp
Chapter 12. The 2010 Elections in New York
Costas Panagopoulos
Part 3 States Not in the Tea Party Play Book
Chapter 13. Arkansas: The Kettle That Didn't Whistle
Andrew Dowdle and Joseph D. Giammo
Chapter 14. Coats vs. Ellsworth: The 2010 Indiana Senate Race
Michael A. Maggiotto and Raymond H. Schelle
Chapter 15. The Blue and the Red in the Land of Obama: The 2010 Midterms in Illinois
Janna L. Dietz
Chapter 16. The 2010 Washington U.S. Senate Race: Two Familiar Faces and Two Potential Wild Cards
Edward Anegon and David Nice
Chapter 17. Connecticut: Too Liberal to Be Palin's Cup of Tea
Diana Evans
Chapter 18. Conclusion: Evaluating Palin, the Tea Party, and DeMint Influences
Charles S. Bullock, III
Notes
Index
About the Authors
Focusing on sixteen high profile Senate races, Key States, High Stakes takes us on a cross-country tour of how these campaigns unfolded and how the role of the Tea Party movement and the involvement of Sarah Palin and other influential politicians [such as] South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint affected the outcomes….Charles Bullock's stable of authors explain[s] why Republicans fell short in winning back the U.S. Senate. Key States, High Stakes is a must read for anyone who wants a detailed look at what factors contributed to GOP success and shortcomings in the most contentious and pivotal 2010 Senate contests.
— Seth C. McKee
Much ink has been spilled over the Tea Party effect on the 2010 elections with little in the way of solid results. This interesting and informative book provides objective analyses of the important Senate races where the Tea Party and/or Palin or DeMint tried to influence the outcomes. The analyses of the individual races are interesting and conclusions regarding effects are analytical not ideological. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the Tea Party and the 2010 elections.
— David W. Brady, Professor, Stanford University
The focus on Senate races distinguishes this book from others. Contributors examine 16 different 2010 contests in order to investigate the roles that Sarah Palin, Senator Jim DeMint, and the Tea Party movement played in different contests. What emerges is the view that Palin was the most pragmatic, supporting candidates who were likely to win even if they were not the most conservative, while DeMint opposed "establishment" Republicans, and the Tea Party movement, which was not as centralized and monolithic as some commentators suggested, supported many candidates. In some states, different Tea Party factions supported different Republican candidates. While Palin, DeMint, and the movement often prevailed in primaries, in some cases the candidates they backed (O'Donnell, Delaware; Angle, Nevada; Buck, Colorado) proved to be easier for Democrats to beat, which permitted the party to retain a majority. It is also clear that while these conservative forces may have helped nominate a number of candidates in 2010, they were just one of many factors that worked against the Democrats in 2010. Bullock ends the book by asking whether the Tea Party was a one-election phenomenon or if it will be a force in 2012. The answer remains to be seen. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; undergraduate and graduate students.
— Choice Reviews
Contributions by Edward Anegon, Stanley P. Berard, David J. Bonanza, Charles S. Bullock III, Janna L. Deitz, Christopher Dennis, Andrew Dowdle, Diana Evans, Joseph D. Giammo, M. Jean Kingston, Ted G. Jelen, Scott Lasley, Susan A. MacManus, Michael A. Maggiotto, Mary L. Moss, David Nice, Costas Panagopoulos, Geoffrey Peterson, Daniel C. Reed, Robert Rupp, Dante J. Scala, Raymond H. Scheele, Joel Turner, and Amy Widestrom.