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Yes, IRS Harassment Blunted The Tea Party Ground Game in 2012
RCM ^ | 06/20/2013 | Stan Veuger

Posted on 06/20/2013 6:44:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The controversy over the IRS's harassment of conservative groups continues. President Obama's team continues to blame low-level bureaucrats. Some conservatives suspect a more sinister explanation: that the levers of government were used to attack an existential threat to the president's 2012 reelection.

The president and his party dismiss this as a paranoid fantasy. The evidence, however, is enough to make one believe that targeting Tea Party groups would have been an effective campaign strategy going into the 2012 election cycle.

It is a well-known fact that the Tea Party movement dealt the president his famous "shellacking" in the 2010 mid-term election. Less well-known is the actual number of votes this new movement delivered-and the continuing effects these votes could have had in 2012 had the movement not been de-mobilized by the IRS.

In a new research paper, Andreas Madestam (from Stockholm University), Daniel Shoag and David Yanagizawa-Drott (both from the Harvard Kennedy School), and I set out to find out how much impact the Tea Party had on voter turnout in the 2010 election. We compared areas with high levels of Tea Party activity to otherwise similar areas with low levels of Tea Party activity, using data from the Census Bureau, the FEC, news reports, and a variety of other sources.

We found that the effect was huge: the movement brought the Republican Party some 3-6 million additional votes in House races. That is an astonishing boost, given that all Republican House candidates combined received fewer than 45 million votes. It demonstrates conclusively how important the party's newly energized base was to its landslide victory in those elections, and how worried Democratic strategists must have been about the conservative movement's momentum.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearmarkets.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irsteaparty

1 posted on 06/20/2013 6:44:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

To read the research paper, click here:

http://www.aei.org/papers/economics/do-political-protests-matter-evidence-from-the-tea-party-movement/


2 posted on 06/20/2013 6:45:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

3 posted on 06/20/2013 6:46:57 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why is everyone still acting as though the results of the elections of 2012 were legitimate?


4 posted on 06/20/2013 6:47:37 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind

Field Tested and Democrat Approved on the streets of Chicago since 1927.


5 posted on 06/20/2013 6:47:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

That big-mouthed cheater won by having the IRS shut down TEA Party fund raising and then getting out 110% of the votes in Black precincts of swing states. And such blatant vote fraud is never challenged in court, so in Hillary’s infamous words, what difference does it make?


6 posted on 06/20/2013 6:48:04 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind
I am pretty sure the IRS monkeyshines did NOT dampen anyone’s enthusiasm, though!

In fact, I think that the TP people rally like crazy, after THIS!

7 posted on 06/20/2013 6:49:57 AM PDT by SMARTY (“The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. “Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yep, Barky used to IRS to prevent any GOP grass roots organizing efforts for the election. In other words, he stole the election.


8 posted on 06/20/2013 6:51:55 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: SeekAndFind

Nixon is beginning to look like a choir boy.


9 posted on 06/20/2013 6:54:29 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: circlecity

Worse than “stole the election” - used the power of the government to steal the election.


10 posted on 06/20/2013 6:58:30 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

Use the IRS to thwart the Tea Party, monkey with voting machines, deliberately overwhelm early voting procedures, etc etc are all tactics that taken together steal an election.


11 posted on 06/20/2013 7:00:33 AM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: MrB
Worse than “stole the election” - used the power of the government to steal the election.

Good thing Obama is a liberal and therefore has the major media as his palace guard or he would already have been forced out like Nixon was.

12 posted on 06/20/2013 7:00:58 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: SeekAndFind

A MUST READ thread. At least IMHO. And I’m always right.


13 posted on 06/20/2013 7:08:24 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (If I had a tag line this is where you would find it)
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To: Menehune56

Maybe... MAYBE... the media is losing it’s perception bias of “he’s just like me and wouldn’t do anything to hurt me”.

The NSA is storing “all information from all sources all the time” according to their website.

And the media may be waking up to this.


14 posted on 06/20/2013 7:09:04 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

Save


15 posted on 06/20/2013 7:10:26 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Eagles6

It may have dampened the enthusiasm but doesn’t take away from the fact they pushed Romney down our throats !!!


16 posted on 06/20/2013 7:13:43 AM PDT by estrogen (voter fraud was huge)
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The meticulously researched timelines posted allover FR are significant since they chronicle events that show the Tea Party was heating up---holding massive rallies, and showing up at townhalls to protest Obamacare.

The arrogant, self-entitled Obamatons surely went ballistic. Does not take much imagination to know the WH con artists were thinking up demonic ways to stop the Tea Partiers who stood in their path.

SIGNIFICANT Remember that when the Obamatons landed in the WH, they also took over the census. So when Obama sent his COS---Rahm Emanuel----to takeover Treasury, he had all the tools at his disposal to target individuals, tea parties, patriot groups, and so on.

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CONNECTING THE DOTS: Obama's stranglegold on Treasury via COS Rahm Emanuel's dual role

THE TARGETING PAPER TRAIL BEGINS: Soon as they occupied the WH, Obama and the Chicago con artists (a) took control of the US Census; (b) Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (the IRS).

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THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.

When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09

More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html

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Contact Congress Toll Free 1-(866) 220-0044 : All of the Treasury factotums doing Rahm's bidding need to be identified and brought before Congress to testify under oath. We need to know the specifics WRT Emanuel's activities at Treasury including dates and times when Emanuel consorted w/ the IRS.

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MOMENTS TO REMEMBER Obama was fond of saying "Tea Parties are a threat to democracy."

Obama told hispanics, " we will reward our friends and punish our enemies."

Valerie Jarrett ominously warned, they "would not forget" which Americans did not worship Obama.

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Contact Congress Toll Free 1-(866) 220-0044---Taxpayers demand Congress call govt employees at Treasury (IRS), who were underlings of Obama COS Rahm Emanuel...to testify under oath, including the number of times Emanuel consorted with the IRS. The WJS reported Emanuel's unusual arrangement----his dual role as WH COS and Treasury head.

CONTACT FOX NEWS --- 1-888-369-4762

CONTACT CONG TREY GOWDY (R-SC)
1404 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-6030
Fax: (202) 226-1177

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TALKING POINTS--WSJ REPORTOn Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.

When he got to Treasury, White House COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09

More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html

17 posted on 06/20/2013 7:25:38 AM PDT by Liz
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To: rhoda_penmark
Nixon is beginning to look like a choir boy.

Beginning?

18 posted on 06/20/2013 8:07:33 AM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And remember that the Occupy movement was shutting down cities while the IRS targeting was occurring.


19 posted on 06/20/2013 10:03:58 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: estrogen

True


20 posted on 06/23/2013 10:03:49 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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