11-10-2016, 03:16 PM
axle2152 Wrote:[MENTION=22821]NativeSon[/MENTION] Tea party has had what major influence? More people buying guns? I fail to see how the Tea Party has accomplished anymore than any other 3rd party....then again I'm not glued to Fox News...
google and ye shall find...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_...y_movement
Quote:The Tea Party movement is an American political movement that advocates strict adherence to the United States Constitution,[1] reducing U.S. government spending and taxes,[2][3] and reduction of the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit.[2]
In the 2010 midterm elections, The New York Times identified 138 candidates for Congress with significant Tea Party support, and reported that all of them were running as Republicans. According to a calculation on an NBC blog, of the candidates that were backed by a Tea Party group, or identified themselves as a Tea Party member, 50% were elected to the Senate and 31% to the House. In addition, research by economists Andreas Madestam of Stockholm University, Daniel Shoag and David Yanagizawa-Drott of Harvard University, and Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute estimated that the Tea Party movement protests generated 2.7â5.5 million additional votes nationwide for the Republican Party in the 2010 House elections.[4]
And that was with the IRS investigating and delaying multiple groups from organizing (probably still going on today.)