Campaign Journal: Tea Party Shaping 2012 Election10/25/2010 10:38AM
Alan Murray and Peter Wallsten discuss how the Tea Party is already playing a role in shaping the 2012 Presidential election. Plus, how candidates are using their kids to help win votes.
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... how long can the tea party last ... welcome to campaign Journal I'm Alan Murray Republican presidential hopefuls are wondering if the tea party is going to be as important in two thousand and twelve ... as it is this year in two thousand ten Peter Woolston Washington has been following this story joins us now Peter tells which are fine ... well it seems like a bunch of the candidates who are thinking of ways of running for president in two thousand problem a Republican side are ... just trying to go the whole thing now ... it's this new isn't a movement ... is just a change of mood in the party ... everyone's trying to game in town figure out how they can ... probably appeal to all of these different segments including the Tea Party which is anonymous energize the ... Republican Party ... that you've been looking particularly at New Gingrich and Mitt Romney ... and they're taking very different strategies can you explain the difference ... yet the definitely ... New Gingrich has decided that this tea party Bing is a huge movement ... and he has turned all of his energy into courting on the local level is traveling the country ... doing everything we can to meet ... local local grassroots ground level activists ... Mitt Romney on the other hand his team feels that this might not be a permanent change in the ... framework of the Republican Party he's sticking to the traditional way ... he's going around the country raising money for candidates and state parties and National Party committees ... and in doing that kind of a ... high-level bank ... that is a much more traditional for people thinking about ... running for president Boyd caters to look at the Wall Street Journal NBC News polls the anti establishment anti incumbent sentiment out there is so strong ... you really have to wonder if if Mitt Romney writing is at it as the insiders the right way to go maybe the metal joints ... I think I'm ... going to go I think derided of Medtronic probably doesn't have a choice now ... a new Gingrich is also the ultimate insider enmity lives here in Washington and this is his life this year he was a fixture in national politics ... and now he's trying to turn himself into the the outsider cc everybody doing it the question is ... will the Tea Party which is ... about us or our poll shows about her of the Republican base ... of considers the so so much ... it is that there's so much about the tea party that they actually identify with the tea party more than what the Republican Party ... they are they getting even welcomed somebody like Irani or didn't return to the summer the email to The and ... that raises a really interesting point I mean we haven't seen anything like this in a long time and some political experts look at those numbers and raise the question whether this is the opportunity for a third party candidate to really make ways ... is the tea party thinking that all of becoming an independent party an alternative to the Republican Party ... you know it's interesting it seems like the tea party I'll base a lot of the folks that I've talked to those who consider themselves national tea party leaders but also local leaders really want to stay in the Republican Party that's the way they feel right now ... that may change one of the party once of nominating and Iran and that could change ... of but but ... but it feels like the third party movement of right now might actually be in the ... among the quota puts entrants the Michael Bloomberg's of the world ... you might see an opportunity there to win some ... but to what can a win by going right down the middle ... with a you refer to Bloomberg I mean Bloomberg is clearly making all the Blues for some sort of a third party Brian you refer to him as a centrist he's saying he's not someone who could appeal to the tea party ... that's a good question a it feels like ... maybe he would be viewed as a as too liberal but he's definitely did trying to portray himself as a fiscal conservative and this'll be the big test of the Tea Party is the tea party ... this the conservative base of the Republican Party energized about a difference your rate now ... um ... or is that canopy of ... a movement that brings together fiscal concert conservatives who might be more socially liberal ... deal which would obviously increase the chances of building a ... national awful national base will quit talking about the tea party here for several minutes and no one's mentioned the magic word Sarah pail and I mean ... she's obviously spending Aller time the tea party parties ... how seriously people taking her as a presidential hopeful ... people are taking or very seriously she ... it is a force in the party our polling shows that ... she does very well with with this group ... interesting Lee ... the group of Republicans who ... aren't as infatuated with the tea party seem to favor Romney ... the group of voters who were his most the Fed infatuated with the tea party seems to favour Gingrich ... but in all of these in all there's a third camp that they kind of like both the Republican Party in the tea party ... all three this can't seem to like Sarah pail and she just doesn't really ... and ... she she doesn't come out on top of either extreme that she's doing well and and people seem to like her and she's obviously a big drop pm Peter turning back to two thousand and ten we get eight days to go until the election ... candidates are clearly pulling out ... all the stops in the final days before the election but one of things they're doing ... is bringing out their children to see about that help the cause let's let's take a look at a couple of recent ads ... speed ... twenty ... I love ... the team to watch ... I ... want an editor ... I hate how can you not support somebody who's kids like them that much right ... but it makes them not human beings which ... which after a really nasty bitter Campaign I guess they want to remind people that were people to ... add anything to do that I'm sure will help that was first reported in Political dot com Peter thanks alot for being with the sun Campaign Journal provider were to be back here every day until election day next Tuesday and then we're going to be at this test for six hours live on election nights of illness ...