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Lugar: No Plans To Campaign For Mourdock

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.27.2012

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Outgoing Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) said Sunday that he has no plans to campaign for Richard Mourdock, who handily beat him in a primary race earlier th...

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Dems: Mourdock Running Away From Tea Party

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 05.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Democrats are criticizing Indiana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock for removing pre-primary material from his website, ...

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Tea Party Leaders Think They've Found Winning Formula

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.19.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A week after unseating a six-term incumbent senator, leaders of FreedomWorks, a national Tea Party organization, said they have the winn...

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Super PACs Make Major Shift

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.10.2012

WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday night Indiana conservative upstart Richard Mourdock defeated 36-year incumbent Sen. Dick Lugar in a primary battle that featu...

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Tea Party Group: We're 'Coming Back With A Vengeance'

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.26.2012

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Pledging that a victory in the Indiana Senate primary will show Tea Party-backed candidates are "coming back with a vengeance," FreedomWorks for Ameri...

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Tea Party Group Claims Policy Victory In Senate Fight

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.21.2012

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With polls showing a battle to the finish in Saturday's state Republican convention vote for U.S. Senate in Utah, a national Tea Party group is claimi...

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The Establishment Strikes Back In Senate Races

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.19.2012

WASHINGTON -- Six-term Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) seemed all alone in facing an insurgent Tea Party primary challenge from state treasurer Richard Mo...

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Tea party leader Dick Armey gets first-class treatment

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012

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By Rachael MarcusiWatch NewsDick Armey is a former House Majority Leader and current chairman of FreedomWorks, which serves as a hub for tea party g...

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Major Tea Party Supporters Clash Over Cato

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.13.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A split is opening up between two forces that helped to launch the Tea Party in 2009. FreedomWorks, a free market/limited government adv...

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Tea Party Group Not Giving Up Senate Fight

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A Tea Party group, under fire for its work in the Utah Republican Senate caucuses last week, is pledging to continue fighting to oust Se...

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For Justices Who Act as "Umpires," Constitutionality of Health Care Reform Is a Simple "Yes"

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.22.2012

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If the federal government can compel an individual to purchase insurance when he/she is consuming healthcare services, then the argument that the government cannot mandate a person to purchase a privately-offered product is thrown out the window.

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FreedomWorks Drops Opposition To Mitt Romney After Months Of Never Really Mounting It In The First Place

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.21.2012

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In the wake of his Illinois primary win, everything seems to be coming up roses for Mitt Romney. Today he's earned the deemed-by-enough-people-to-be-i...

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Tea Party Group Caves To Romney

Washington Times | Ralph Z. Hallow | Posted 05.21.2012

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The organization that ignited the tea party as a national mass movement gave Mitt Romney perhaps his biggest victory yet, deciding to drop its opposit...

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FreedomWorks, Tea Party Group, Sees Tactics Backfire In Utah GOP Primary: Report

The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 03.19.2012

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Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) appears likely to have fended off what seemed not too long ago to be a very viable Tea Party challenge. The Utah Republic...

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Tea Party Group Making Big Move Against Hatch

Politico | Manu Raju | Posted 03.13.2012

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Forget about Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama....

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What Distinguishes Occupy Wall Street From the Tea Party? Follow the Money

Asher Smith | Posted 12.24.2011

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Similarities between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street certainly exist on a micro level -- but they are hardly big-picture.

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Tea Party Group Tastes Tepid Support Among Conservatives For Overhauling Medicare And Social Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 12.19.2011

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WASHINGTON –- Liberals and conservatives disagree vehemently over what to do with Medicare and Social Security, but among conservative think-tankers...

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Tea Party's Last 2012 Primary Hope Struggling To Gain Traction

AP | By HENRY C. JACKSON and TOM LoBIANCO | Posted 12.13.2011

WASHINGTON -- The tea party movement's best remaining hope in 2012 for picking off an incumbent Republican in the Senate has boiled down to one state,...

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Tea Party Groups Cash In Big Time

Politico | Kenneth P. Vogel | Posted 12.03.2011

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If you've got fundraising muscle, it pays to be tea party. That's the takeaway from recently released financial reports for five of the biggest con...

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FreedomWorks Suggests Tea Party Opposition To Romney Is Softening (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 11.23.2011

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ORLANDO -- The head of an influential Tea Party group that has been outspoken against Mitt Romney signaled Friday that their opposition to the former ...

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Rick Perry's Social Security Comments: A Hit With Tea Partiers

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- One of the central moments of Wednesday night's GOP presidential debate was the exchange on Social Security between Texas Gov. Rick Perr...

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Republican Rift: Big Business vs. Tea Party

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.09.2011

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The tension between the two wings of the GOP rose to the surface during the recent battle over the debt ceiling, which then exploded into a war of words between former Republican Senator Alan Simpson and Grover Norquist, head of the right-wing outfit, Americans for Tax Reform.

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Despite Pulling Debt Ceiling Debate Rightward, Tea Party Activists Slam House-Passed Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 10.01.2011

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WASHINGTON – Republican Lindsey Graham's position on the debt ceiling deal Monday made one thing very plain: the senior senator from South Carolina ...

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Tea Party Group Morphs To Fulfill New Mission

Roll Call | Janie Lorber | Posted 08.27.2011

When dozens of raucous conservative activists Monday stormed the National Republican Senatorial Committee and demanded the GOP campaign arm stay out o...

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How Conservative Groups Are Leveraging Talk Radio Hosts For Influence

Politico | Kenneth P. Vogel & Lucy McCalmont | Posted 08.15.2011

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If you're a regular listener of Glenn Beck's radio show and you wanted to contribute to a political group that would advance the populist conservative...

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