"And it might be bloody soul-searching, because you've got a wing of the party that has expanded its influence enormously over the last couple of decades, and that's the social/cultural agenda evangelical right. And on the other side you've got the Republican Party as it had been for so long, the conservative/moderates, many of whom feel their party's been hijacked, and many of whom -- I think correctly so -- see the party coming apart, seeing it divided, and losing race after race after race as a result of that."

- John Straayer, a political science professor at Colorado State University, on the ramifications of possible Republican losses in Tuesday's election.