No, their candidates won a bigger percentage of their races than did the democrats. It just means they didn't happen to win.
One aspect of the Tea Parties are they have had it with allowing the Left to define who the Right are. There was nothing wrong with Sharron Angle. Now with Christine O'Donnell, although the desire to "kick the weasels out" is a healthy one, the reality of the situation was O'Donnell was too weak in a number of ways to be electable.
A zeal of trying to restore integrity has to also consider pragmatism. She was a "bridge to far".
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.