{"id":432495,"date":"2010-03-15T23:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/observers-discount-impact-of-tea-party-on-texas-primary-outcomes\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T23:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:01:23","slug":"observers-discount-impact-of-tea-party-on-texas-primary%c2%a0outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/432495","title":{"rendered":"Observers Discount Impact Of Tea Party On Texas Primary\u00a0Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Texas+governor+Rick+Perry_1961_19664994_0_0_7028532_300.jpg\" alt=\"Observers discount impact of Tea Party on Texas primary outcomes \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">After the recent round of primary elections in Texas some commentators have suggested that victories of fiscal conservatives are an indication of the growing strength of the Tea Party movement. However, others have cautioned that the claims may be overblown. <\/p>\n<p>They point out that although Governor Rick Perry resoundingly won the Republican gubernatorial primary by advocating small government, opposing the federal deficit as well as tax increases, there was also a Tea Party candidate in that race who finished a distant third.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, despite Tea Party challengers, all 11 of the incumbent House Republicans facing challengers in the state won their primary battle in the end, according to <em>CNN<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;[These] candidates complicated things at the lower level of the tickets, but they didn&#8217;t quite overwhelm the better-established dynamics in a lot of these districts,&quot; said James Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas, quoted by the news provider. <\/p>\n<p>As far as the Tea Party impact, he added, &quot;there was a lot more flash than bang.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The grassroots movement was launched last year in response to the massive stimulus package passed by Congress and signed by President Obama. Its website specifies that Tea Party Nation is a group of people who want to preserve God-given individual freedoms introduced by the Founding Fathers and who believe in limited government, free speech, the Second Amendment, the military and secure borders. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19664994-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19664994\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the recent round of primary elections in Texas some commentators have suggested that victories of fiscal conservatives are an indication of the growing strength of the Tea Party movement. However, others have cautioned that the claims may be overblown. They point out that although Governor Rick Perry resoundingly won the Republican gubernatorial primary by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}