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Tea Party Choice to Face Reid in Nevada

Outsider Angle wins GOP Senate nomination

(Newser) - Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle has won the Republican nomination for US Senate in Nevada, setting up an epic showdown with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Angle, a former state assemblywoman, took the nomination after a tough primary in which opponents painted the outsider as too extreme to appeal to...

Tea Party Support Slips

Poll shows young voters, white Southerners less happy

(Newser) - A new poll from the Washington Post and ABC shows that support for the tea party movement appears to be slipping, reports the Right Now blog :
  • The percentage who hold an unfavorable view of the movement rose from 39% in March to 50%.
  • The decline is particularly sharp among 18-
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Support for Incumbents Dips to All-Time Low
Support for Incumbents Dips to All-Time Low
Poll Numbers
Jun 8, 2010 1:42 PM CDT

Support for Incumbents Dips to All-Time Low

...but half the population hates the Tea Party, new poll shows

(Newser) - It’s a bad time to be an incumbent, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good time to be allied with a far-right protest movement. In a new Washington Post-ABC News poll , only 29% of Americans say they plan to vote for their current House representative in...

Gates Has Unlikely Ally in Defense Fight: Tea Party

Conservative group willing to shrink military

(Newser) - Robert Gates wants to impose a new fiscal discipline on the military by slashing millions from weapons programs—and he may have an unlikely ally in his uphill battle: the Tea Party. The conservative group is so dedicated to cutting government spending that many of its members are backing off...

Big States Could Be Tea Party's Undoing

Tomorrow's California primary race its first big test

(Newser) - The Tea Party better eat a good dinner and get a solid night's sleep, because its first major test is tomorrow: specifically, the Republican primary races in Nevada, where party favorite Sharron Angle is the likely winner, and California, where party-darling Chuck DeVore seems doomed to second place. Both races...

Republicans Trounce Dems in Small Donors

GOP pulls in $70M in checks of $200 or less, to Dems' $44M

(Newser) - Republicans are cashing in the populist outrage they've helped stir up, raising more money from small donors than Democrats for the first time since 1998. GOP candidates have raised $70 million from small donors this year, compared to $44 million for Democrats, the Washington Post reports. That's still only 16%...

Tea Party Candidate Thinks He's the Messiah
Tea Party Candidate
Thinks He's the Messiah
GOP Is not amused
May 25, 2010 7:34 AM CDT

Tea Party Candidate Thinks He's the Messiah

Tim D'Annunzio believes god will drop a pyramid on Greenland

(Newser) - Republican leaders have declared open war on Tim D'Annunzio, a Tea Party-backed North Carolina congressional candidate who they fear may be insane. They're publicizing documents from D'Annunzio's divorce, in which his wife testifies that he called himself the messiah, predicted God would drop a 1,000-mile high pyramid on Greenland,...

Rand Paul Reeks of Tea Party Doom

'Too far out' for mainstream America

(Newser) - Rand Paul's waffling on civil rights and calling President Obama "un-American" for keeping pressure on BP is stark evidence the Tea Party faces an uphill battle, argues Mark Sappenfield in the Christian Science Monitor . "To remain true to the Tea Party ideology is to occupy a spot on...

Tea Party's First Victim Offers Advice to Tea Partiers

It takes compromise, not just slogans, to govern

(Newser) - The Tea Party loves its slogans, namely "Send a message to Washington" and "Take back America," writes soon-to-be-gone Senator Bob Bennett of Utah. "I know both very well because they were the main tools used to defeat me," he writes in the Washington Post . Such...

Rand Paul Bails on Meet the Press

He cancels appearance amid civil rights fallout

(Newser) - Rand Paul's team has found one sure way to make sure he avoids any more trouble in nationally televised interviews: avoid them entirely. Rand has backed out of an interview on tomorrow's Meet the Press, reports the Washington Post's Right Now blog . The move comes after his Rachel Maddow interview...

Rand Paul Embodies Perils of Being a Real Outsider

Nominee isn't just just a seasoned pol campaigning as an outsider

(Newser) - If you've followed the ping-ponging fortunes of Rand Paul over the last few days, one thing becomes clear, writes Ben Smith: "There’s a difference between campaigning as an outsider—and really being one." Paul has already begun backtracking from his volatile statement that the Civil Rights Act...

Meet Your Typical Angry Voter
Meet Your Typical
Angry Voter
David Brooks
May 21, 2010 9:15 AM CDT

Meet Your Typical Angry Voter

Poor 'Ben' is about to be very disappointed

(Newser) - Patio Man, meet Ben the Angry Voter. David Brooks is busy inventing American archetypes again. (For a primer on his Patio Man from a while back, see here and here .) This time, it's Ben, an average guy who for years lived a non-flashy but "satisfying, moral" way of...

This Year’s Hottest Bestseller: The Constitution

Tea Party tied to upsurge in interest in Constitution

(Newser) - With Democrats, Republicans and the Tea Party all citing the Constitution in support of their agendas, ordinary citizens apparently want to get in on the act too: Sales of the US Constitution have skyrocketed over the past year. In March the Constitution reached number 10 on the Government Printing Office...

Palin Backs Tea Partier Who Raked In $300K in Subsidies

Clint Didier calls federal government a 'predator,' but cashes in

(Newser) - A Tea Party-backed candidate who calls the government "a predator" and denounces public spending as a "Marxist utopia" appears to have made a special exception for himself, hauling in almost $300,000 in federal farming subsidies. Washington Senate candidate Clint Didier was endorsed by Sarah Palin yesterday, notes...

Bar Crowd Burns Obama in Effigy

Secret Service snoops around after Wisconsin incident

(Newser) - Another sign of political nastiness: A bar crowd in Wisconsin burned President Obama in effigy, a stunt that caught the attention of the Secret Service and spawned a YouTube hit. The local Fox station says the Secret Service is no longer interested but that local police are investigating. The bar...

Tea Party Head Apologizes for 'Monkey God' Comment...

...To Hindus who do worship a monkey god

(Newser) - Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams today apologized profusely for saying that Muslims worship a “ monkey god .” But not to Muslims. “I owe an apology,” he wrote on his blog , “to millions of Hindus who worship Lord Hanuman, an actual Monkey God. Hanuman is worshiped...

Public Anger Boosted Rand Paul to Victory
 Public Anger Boosted 
 Rand Paul to Victory 
ANALYSIS
May 19, 2010 3:06 AM CDT

Public Anger Boosted Rand Paul to Victory

But win may not signal Tea Party breakthrough

(Newser) - Rand Paul's resounding Senate win in Kentucky's GOP primary represents a major upset for the Republican Party and a major victory for the Tea Party movement. Paul—who led opponent Trey Grayson by 59% to 35% with 89% of precincts reported—tapped into voter anger at Washington far more successfully...

Tea Party Bard Sheds Secret Identity

Jon David's real name revealed as Jonathan Kahn

(Newser) - Tea Partiers know him as Jon David, the guy with the guitar whose song “American Heart” has become an anthem for the movement. “I got American parts / Got American faith / In America's heart,” he croons at rallies around the country, semi-disguised by hat and sunglasses....

3 Big Primaries Test Voter Rage
 3 Big Primaries 
 Test Voter Rage 
ANALYSIS
May 17, 2010 6:50 AM CDT

3 Big Primaries Test Voter Rage

Arlen Specter, Blanche Lincoln, Rand Paul in key races

(Newser) - Look to three big primaries tomorrow, in both parties, for a test of the country's anti-establishment rage and the chances that Congress will be even more polarized after November, reports the Los Angeles Times . In Pennsylvania, Democratic challenger Joe Sestak has pulled even with Arlen Specter with ads sneering that...

GOP Is Approaching the Lunatic Fringe
 GOP Is Approaching 
 the Lunatic Fringe 
dana milbank
May 15, 2010 11:16 AM CDT

GOP Is Approaching the Lunatic Fringe

Tea Party, Glenn Beck are pushing it to extremes

(Newser) - Dana Milbank sees a Republican party going off the rails thanks to the "purity putsches" of the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, and others. And May 8 may end up being the tipping point, he writes in the Washington Post . Bob Bennett's defeat in Utah grabbed the big headlines, but...

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