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    Which Way, L.A.?

    GOP, Palin Steep in Tea Party Politics

    It was a tea party with a lot of angry people, right-wing true believers who've had it with the current political state of affairs. Sarah Palin helped stoke that anger when she spoke to the recent inaugural Tea Party Convention , but will the anger of newly organized Tea partiers translate into real political change?

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    It was a tea party with a lot of angry people, right-wing true believers who've had it with the current political state of affairs. Sarah Palin helped stoke that anger when she spoke to the recent inaugural Tea Party Convention, but will the anger of newly organized Tea partiers translate into real political change? Marc Ambinder is political editor at the Atlantic Monthly, a contributing editor at the National Journal and a consultant for CBS News.

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