Fundraising fizzles for many in Tea Party

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Many Tea Party candidates are fizzling with their fundraising — an early sign they might struggle to upend the entrenched incumbents they’re challenging in this year’s 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

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1. Their constituents realize

a waste of money when they see one.

[Walk away]

2. That's great but we'll be living with the Teabaggers in Congress and

the state legislatures for decades. They are the toenail fungus of politics! Yuck.

[Archae]

3. Looks like the Teabaggers are burning themselves out.

They show themselves as unelectable mostly, and when they do get elected, they accomplish little or nothing.

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. No more Koch Bros money?

[FSogol]

5. Hey Tea Party:

[hootinholler]

6. Not to worry, the Koch Bros have deep pockets

And a way of anonymously funneling it to their chosen.