Which matters most to the ‘tea party’: win seats or reshape GOP?

Quoted: “This kind of insurgency is much more unusual than, say, [the Reagan revolution or the Gingrich revolution],” says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison. “You have a sort of classic establishment view that youâ??re about getting the seats [in Congress] and thatâ??s what grown-up leaders in Washington worry about [versus] this very intense amateur movement, but one that believes in something.”