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Tea Party movement
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Tea Party movement

Tea Party supporters made up 41% of voters in the 2010 midterms and 86% of those supporters voted for Republican House candidates, according to national exit polling summarized by Pew Research Center, 23 Feb 2011.

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The Tea Party movement was a decentralized U.S. conservative mobilization that grew after 2009 around taxation, federal spending and opposition to the Obama administration. It reshaped Republican primaries and pushed fiscal and anti-government themes into Congress.

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