PHOENIX -- Tea party supporters voting in a straw poll at a national summit favor conservative Texas Rep. Ron Paul and Georgia radio host Herman Cain for president in 2012. Cain won 22 percent support ...
Fueled by big victories over establishment candidates in Indiana and Illinois in recent weeks, the tea party insurgency was only modestly successful in Texas Tuesday night, falling short in ...
In the race for Republican Thom Tillis’ state House seat, Democrat Natasha Marcus is getting some help from an unlikely source. Tea party Republicans. Some Lake Norman-area conservatives opposed to ...
When Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., uttered the phrase “legitimate rape” after winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2012, a certain sort of political watcher concluded that the Tea Party had ...
The divisions among House Republicans over how deeply to cut federal spending reflect fundamental differences within the GOP base. Roughly half of Republicans and Republican-leaners agree with the Tea ...
The American public has a more positive view of the Tea Party movement than both leaders of the majority party in Congress, according to a poll released Wednesday. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll ...
The tea party movement has grabbed a lot of media attention for its anti-big government positions, but it has also become embroiled in questions about the racial attitudes of some participants.