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Grassroots super PACs are mostly Tea Partiers

By Timothy P. Carney
Published March 5, 2014 5:00am ET
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Grassroots super PACs are mostly Tea Partiers
Tea party activists attend a rally on the grounds of the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to air their grievances against the Internal Revenue Service and their distrust of growing government bureaucracy. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) | J. Scott Applewhite

You’re familiar, I’m sure, with the liberal argument that the Tea Party is not a real grassroots phenomenon, but is instead the plaything of plutocrats.

Then there’s the Democrats’ self-image of being funded by small money while the GOP is all big money.

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