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It won’t be available for holiday gifts this year but U.S. Sen.-elect Rand Paul of Bowling Green is writing a book entitled “The Tea Party Goes to Washington.”

Tea party backed Senate candidates in several states significantly underperformed more establishment Republican candidates running on the same ballot last Tuesday, data that provides further evidence that the tea party movement may have cost the GOP seats.

Senator Tea Party, as Jim DeMint is sometimes known, is a moniker the first-term senator began wearing before the Tea Party became a household name. It's also a description that has pushed the South Carolina Republican out of the shadows and into the forefront of electoral politics.

The tea party's volatile influence on this election year appears to be doing more harm than good for Republicans' chances in some of the closest races in the nation, in which little-known candidates who upset the establishment with primary wins are now stumbling in the campaign's final days.

Senator John McCain s daughter said on Sunday that Senate nominee Christine O Donnell of Delaware, a Tea Party favorite, is seen as a nut job.

The conservative Tea Party movement in the US blocks a Republican senator from Utah in his re-election bid. Sen Bennett came third at a Republican Party convention in Salt Lake City.