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The Tea Party: Burgeoning Or Beaten?, Philip Olsen, Alexa Robinson
The Tea Party: Burgeoning Or Beaten?, Philip Olsen, Alexa Robinson
Augsburg Honors Review
The Tea Party is a grassroots political movement which has gained a considerable following since its inception in 2009.Its platform centers on a single issue -- greater fiscal responsibility and conservatism on the part of each respective level of government. In this paper we examine the question of whether or not the Tea Party will develop into a viable political entity. We concluded early on in the process of researching this paper that extensive statistical analysis would only be a fruitless endeavor because of the contemporaneity of the Tea Party movement. Any figures we might choose to use stood the …