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The Tea Party Movement Has Momentum

If the Tea Party movement is irrelevant, ineffective and out-of-touch – why does the left even bother with it? If the Tea Party movement is a small group of angry Republicans - why it is being treated as a huge threat to the liberal agenda and ideology? If the Tea Party movement is as insignificant as many liberals would like to believe – why spend the time to participate in smear campaigns...

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Tea Party Factors Playing into the Texas Primary

Rick Perry won the Republican nomination to continue as governor of Texas by a wide margin. To the surprise of many people, he avoided a runoff with Kay Bailey Hutchinson in the process. The final vote tally is Rick Perry with 757,461 - 51.09%, Kay Bailey Hutchinson 449,632 - 30.33% and Debra Medina 275,604 18.59%. Perry ran an anti-Washington campaign labeling Hutchinson as a Washington insider ...

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Happy Birthday Tea Party

Whether or not February 27 marks the official beginning of the Tea Party Movement as we currently know it, will be left open for discussion and debate. This much we can be sure - it was on this date in 2009, that small groups of people met in cities across the country to protest the $786 billion Stimulus Bill. It was from those small events that the Tea Party became a mass movement garnering national...

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Political Involvement Across State Lines

Recently, there have been numerous complaints about PACs, activists, bloggers and other politically minded individuals and groups becoming involved in elections outside of their own states. Blogs and posts have appeared, saying in effect, “stay out of our state, we can take care of our own election. What we do does not concern you.” That is statement is simply not true, especially when a federal...

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A Key Issue in 2010 Elections – Health Care Reform Revived

In an interview with CBS News anchor Katie Couric just hours before the Super Bowl; President Barack Obama invited the Republicans to bring their best ideas on Healthcare Reform to a televised bipartisan meeting February 25th. Democrats hope the meeting will restart the stalled healthcare and get it moving again. The bill has been on hold since the Democrats lost their crucial 60th Senate vote last...