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    • Tea party candidates vow to make a difference in Senate

      By Yahoo! News | Special Reports – Tue, Oct 19, 2010

      By John Fritze
      USA TODAY

      LOUISVILLE — They defined the election. Now, they hope to redefine the Senate.

      Relying on an anti-Washington message of limited government and less spending, a growing number of tea party candidates are pulling even with their Democratic rivals or are frontrunners in some of the nation's most closely watched Senate races of this year's midterm election.

      With less than two weeks to go before voters decide which party will control Congress and the fate of President Obama's agenda, conservative Republicans in Kentucky, Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Wisconsin and West Virginia are poised to be a part of the largest class of incoming GOP senators since the 1994 "Republican Revolution." That year, voters elected 11 new Senate Republicans.

      Even if Republicans don't win the 10 seats they need to recapture the Senate majority, the upstart tea party candidates say their presence will be felt.

      [Ex-wrestling CEO's ads slam Dem in Conn. Senate race]

      "The base has revolted and

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    • Can the Tea Party govern?

      By Yahoo! News | Special Reports – Thu, Sep 30, 2010

      By Josh Kraushaar
      National Journal

      The lion's share of attention paid to the Tea Party movement has gone to its Senate candidates, a slew of outsiders who have touted their opposition to excessive government, shaking up the Republican Party and upending races across the country.

      But for a real sense of whether the Tea Party is a short-term fad or a long-term force, look no further than the gubernatorial landscape, where at least four outspoken conservative candidates with connections to the movement are within striking distance of running state government -- some of them in true Democratic bastions.

      [Which governor's seats are most at risk of switching parties?]

      In Maine, Minnesota, Illinois and New York -- all states President Obama won by double-digit margins -- Tea Party-backed candidates whose messages are unlike anything voters have heard in decades are on the doorsteps of the governor's mansions.

      The front-runner in the Maine gubernatorial race is Paul LePage, a businessman

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