Posted on 01/29/2020 7:29:06 PM PST by DeweyCA
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A scholarly study conducted by the American Enterprise Institute concluded that suppression of the Tea Party movement by Obama’s IRS helped him get reelected.
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The bottom line is that the Tea Party movement, when properly activated, can generate a huge number of votes-more votes in 2010, in fact, than the vote advantage Obama held over Romney in 2012. The data show that had the Tea Party groups continued to grow at the pace seen in 2009 and 2010, and had their effect on the 2012 vote been similar to that seen in 2010, they would have brought the Republican Party as many as 5 – 8.5 million votes compared to Obama’s victory margin of 5 million. The bottom line is that the Tea Party movement, when properly activated, can generate a huge number of votes-more votes in 2010, in fact, than the vote advantage Obama held over Romney in 2012.
The effectiveness of the Tea Party, combined with Obama’s relatively small margin of victory in key swing states, suggests that the IRS’s suppression of the Tea Party movement likely tipped the scales in favor of Obama.
"Had the Tea Party repeated and built on their activism of 2009 and 2010 in 2011 and 2012, Obama would have lost the election. What happened to the Tea Party boost? It didn't grow from 2010. It appeared to weaken," Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform wrote in his book, End The IRS Before It Ends Us. "The Tea Party didn't fall down the stairs. It was pushed."
James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal agreed that the IRS helped Obama in 2012. “Barack Obama’s reelection deserves to be listed with an asterisk in the record books.”
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The Feet Of Karma may catch up with the Jugeared Kenyan yet...
A scholarly study conducted by the American Enterprise Institute concluded that suppression of the Tea Party movement by Obama’s IRS helped him get reelected.
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That and the GOP putting up another Designated Loser, this one with the disability to run against Obamacare because it was first called Romneycare.
The first Designated Loser was useful to muddy the waters about Obama’s ineligibility.
What happened to the Tea Party boost?
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The GOP coopted and killed it.
Until Trump came along.
The movement and people were always still there, it just needed a leader.
Anyone else notice how newscasters still refer to the Imposter as "President Obama"...like when he grunts something about Kobe Bryant?
It's "FORMER President" you azzoles!
He’ll always be the Kenyanesian Usurper to me.
He is not a natural born citizen and the Constitution says he can’t be President.
YES.
If he hadn’t rigged it we’d have gotten Mitt Romney so I’ll call it a wash and move on.
And Lois Lerner retired with full Govt pension. May she rot in h***.
Well if Romney had won do you think we would have Trump as President now?
Romney - the Massachusetts RINO who worked on the prototype for Obamacare. It sucks how Obama interfered in an election (or two/s). But the silver lining is we were spared from Romney&Ryan.
“Ophonybama” has always worked for me!
Plus “Bishop” Romney caved when the SCOMA ruled that gay “marriage” must be recognized.
He was and is and always will be Øbama-lite.
Most of us knew this. He lied and cheated to get through everything in his scum sucking life. I am not so sure he beat Romney without fraud but who the hell cares about Romney at this point? Clinton learned from Obama and thought she was just going to fall into the Oval Office half dead as she was during the campaign. They all hate Trump because he stopped this American hating slaughter (for now).
And no one was punished....
And nobody is in prison. The next Democrat election shall be worse tyranny.
IRS no.
Democrats no.
Tea Party yes.
Democrats are life’s communist losers.
Sorry but Romney was a TOTAL LOSER And THREW the election
Doubt it ? Rerun debates 2 and 3
This would’t have been the first election he stole. I seem to remember his run for Senator in Ilinois when his opponent, Sen Ryan ( married to Star Trek’s 7 0f 9) suddenly saw his secret family court records made public via a leak by some insider.
The Tea Party was the great Silent Majority coming back to take America back. Lois Lerner should be in the slammer.
There’s that, the massive voter fraud, and 0bamas henchmen (black Panthers) intimidating voters. Not to mention the whole “vote or die”, “vote as if your lives depend on it”, etc scaremongering campaign in predominantly black areas.
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