ann---:

Owens lived in the district. Too much "outside influence" by Tea Partiers.

Pogue Mahone:

It got even weirder when the rep candidate endoresed the dem candidate. A case of the two parties coming together to support the two party monopoly?

Absolutely, ann.

The crackpot wing, put all their "national resources" into this one district, that had been Repub for "a hunnerd years"...AND STILL LOST!!!