A year ago, the tea party movement looked like an irresistible wave sweeping through the Republican Party. Anyone who hoped to win this year's GOP presidential nomination, it seemed, would need to embrace tea party activists' stringent demands for smaller government, lower taxes and deep cuts in spending.But in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses, the three candidates who hewed closest to the tea party line "” Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich "” sank straight to the bottom of the pack.
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/01/05/is_the_tea_party_movement_over_270574.html
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