My Daily Domestic Clips 08/30/2010 (a.m.)

• Glenn Beck rally signals election trouble for Dems – BostonHerald.com – Annotated tags: currentevents
  • The tea party is essentially a loosely organized band of anti-tax,
    libertarian-leaning political newcomers who are fed up with Washington and take
    some of their cues from Beck. While the movement drew early skepticism from
    establishment Republicans, these same GOP powerbrokers now watch it with a wary
    eye as activists have mounted successful primary campaigns against
    incumbents.
    The Beck rally further demonstrated the tea party activists’ growing
    political clout.
    If the GOP is able to contain and cooperate with the tea party, and recharge
    its evangelical wing with Beck-style talk of faith, it spells the kind of change
    Ratliff and others like him are searching for.
    The promise of change helped President Barack Obama win the White House in
    2008, but could turn against his fellow Democrats this year. Americans’ dim view
    of the economy has grown even more pessimistic this summer as the nation’s
    unemployment rate stubbornly hovered near 10 percent and other troubling
    economic statistics have emerged on everything from housing to the economy’s
    growth.

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