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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFundraising fizzles for many in Tea Party
Many Tea Party candidates are fizzling with their fundraising an early sign they might struggle to upend the entrenched incumbents theyre challenging in this years primary elections.
A number of more conservative candidates running against Republican incumbents have failed to impress in their most recent year-end fundraising reports. Meager hauls came from many Tea Party challengers, including Senate candidates in Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina and South Dakota who had been hoping to pull upsets, as well as from congressional candidates challenging Reps. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) and Greg Walden (R-Ore.).
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/197330-fundraising-falls-short-for-many-tea-party-candidates#ixzz2sNaufz00
bmbmd
(3,088 posts)a waste of money when they see one.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)the state legislatures for decades. They are the toenail fungus of politics! Yuck.
Archae
(46,373 posts)They show themselves as unelectable mostly, and when they do get elected, they accomplish little or nothing.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)FSogol
(45,582 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)And a way of anonymously funneling it to their chosen.