Katy Roberts , Columnist

Northeast Republicans Return to the Endangered List

Predictions of the death of the Northeast Republicans proved premature in 2010, but in 2012, the party is back in critical care.Â

November 7, 2012 at 7:31 PM UTC

By Katy Roberts

Katy Roberts is an editor for Bloomberg Opinion. She previously worked at the New York Times, serving as national editor and editor of the op-ed page and Week in Review (now Sunday Review).

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Predictions of the death of the Northeast Republicans proved premature in 2010, when the party picked up a total of 10 House seats in New England and New York, not to mention a surprise Senate seat in Massachusetts in a special election earlier that year.

In 2012, the party is back in critical care. Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate lost in three New England states. The liberal Democrat Elizabeth Warren routed Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts. In Maine, Angus King, a former governor and an independent who is expected to caucus with the Democrats, sailed past his Republican challenger to replace Olympia Snowe, the Republican moderate who is retiring. And wrestling magnate Linda McMahon, a Republican, was beaten in her $42 million-plus battle against Democratic Representative Chris Murphy to replace Joe Lieberman in the Senate.