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Posted by Anne Segal on July 12, 2012 20 Comments

New polling data released today by independent Public Policy Polling shows Ted Cruz leading Lt. Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican runoff for Senate in Texas. The numbers are the first released by a third-party pollster: Cruz's lead expands to a whooping 59-36 margin over Dewhurst...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2012 26 Comments

From Keith Burgess-Jackson, in April 2010 (hey, I just saw it, but it's timeless): Two comments on the Tea Party movement. First, progressives refer to its members as angry. This is an attempt to replace a cognitive state (belief) with an affective state (anger), and thereby...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2012 16 Comments

I'm not there this weekend, but at least we have video! ...

Posted by Anne Segal on June 12, 2012 50 Comments

Ronald Reagan, the humble servant-leader, would have appealed to all conservatives, indeed all Americans, who believe in the right and ability to self-govern. It is the political establishment that would have much to fear from Reagan—not grassroots activists, as Jeb Bush implies in his comments yesterday....

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on May 13, 2012 38 Comments

As has been said on here before: If you’re not on Twitter, you need to be. Nowhere is this point made more readily apparent than the way in which the Tea Party has utilized social media outlets like Twitter, to begin to reshape the Republican...

Posted by Anne Segal on April 21, 2012 34 Comments

Tea Parties across the country, the recipients of letters from the IRS demanding they produce reams of documents detailing every email, blog post, tweet, radio transcript, Facebook entry, and on, have banded together to share resources in defending their 501c4 applications. The Liberty Defense Foundation is allowing the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2012 21 Comments

It always has been a two front political war. Here's the other front, Tim Carney at The Washington Examiner, K Street and Tea Party again fight for soul of GOP: Big business and the Tea Party are at swords' points once again, with GOP Senate primaries for...

Posted by Anne Segal on April 17, 2012 17 Comments

Two standout appearances at Chicago's Tea Party this Monday were familiar faces from Saturday's Wisconsin event: BigJournalism's Dana Loesch and Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. These two women, working moms who are relatively recent entrants into the political fray, are examples of one of the most...

Posted by Anne Segal on April 16, 2012 37 Comments

This past Saturday marked a change for the now-annual Wisconsin Tax Day Tea Party in Madison, Wisc. While thousands turned out -- an organizer said it was 6,300 --  it wasn't the masses that had showed up in the pouring rain last year to see...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 28, 2012 24 Comments

There is a prime opportunity in the Indiana Republican primary to elect a solid conservative, Richard Mourdock, and to retire Obama's favorite Republican, Richard Lugar, who has an abysmal voting record. I will be supporting Mourdock, and I hope you will help with this important race. I first wrote...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2012 37 Comments

Instapundit links to articles on the third anniversary of the Tea Party movement, when the first rallies were held. I attribute the rise to the rant earlier in February 2009 by Rick Santelli. I can watch this over and over again without getting tired of it.  It's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2012 102 Comments

I had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago of meeting with Anne Sorock and Yvonne Ralsky, co-founders of The Fontier Lab. The Frontier Lab, among other things, utilizes "deep values research" common in consumer products marketing analysis (Anne is a Cornell Business School graduate who concentrated in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2012 13 Comments

A Democratic SuperPAC just made my job of identifying House members to support as part of Operation Counterweight a whole lot easier. The new SuperPAC will target 10 Tea Party congressmen, six of whom have been identified with four to be named, via HuffPo (h/t @JazzShaw): A liberal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2012 94 Comments

It's not looking good in Florida. The polls show Romney surging as a result of the Romney plan exposed by The NY Times to overwhelm Newt via Romney's close ties to Drudge and a collective effort of the Republican establishment to go after Newt in what The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2012 149 Comments

If you asked me even a couple of weeks ago whether the Republican Party could heal from the wounds of this election cycle in time to unite against Obama, I would have said "Yes." I'm not so sure anymore.  After the South Carolina primary the Republican establishment, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 13, 2012 22 Comments

This is from the "you can't make this stuff up" files Analysis from Small Dead Animals, The Other McCain, and Ace of Spades HQ: The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2011 42 Comments

You know I have a big problem with Michele Bachmann making statements which are not supported by facts and then repeating them endlessly. Her campaign is up to much worse in South Carolina, where her local campaign manager has suggested that the Gingrich campaign has paid...

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