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I think the tea party has brought great energy to our political process. You get in these primary elections — they are hard-fought battles and sometimes — listen, there is not that much, not that big a difference between what you call the tea party and your average conservative Republican.
— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), asserting the tea party and conservative Republicans are basically the same, CNN reports.
I’ve had some radical ideas about voting and it’s probably not a good time to tell them, but you used to have to be a property owner to vote.
— Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), quoted by the Huffington Post.
$5 million
Amount Hillary Clinton has made since leaving the State Department on more than 90 speeches and notable appearances, Mother Jones reports.
55%
Of Americans support legalization of same-sex marriage, according to a new poll from Gallup. In 1996, 68 percent of Americans were against legalization of gay marriage. Among young adults age 18-29 support for gay marriage has risen to 78 percent.
