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>A month ago, a U.C.L.A. graduate student named Emily Ekins spent hours roaming a
>Tea Party rally on the Washington Mall, photographing every sign she saw.
Wow. She based her research on a WHOLE one rally? Well, that settles it I guess.
>Ekins, a former CATO Institute intern, was examining the liberal conceit that
Tea Party marches are rife with racism and conspiracy theorizing. Last week, The
>Washington Post reported on her findings: just 5 percent of the 250 signs
referenced Barack Obama’s race or religion, and 1 percent brought up his birth
>certificate. The majority focused on bailouts, deficits and spending — exactly
the issues the Tea Partiers claim inspired their movement in the first place.
That totally explains tea part support for folks like Sharon Angle, Christine O'Donnell and Carl Paladino.
>The easy thing would be to take them at their word.
Of course, the easy path rarely results in finding the truth. Test everything and all that.
Thom
http://thomwade.wordpress.com/
http://www.cafepress.com/Thomwade
http://www.in-one-ear.com
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