The Tipping Point Blog Archive 2011

Trouble Brewing in Maine's Tea Party

Submitted by Mike Tipping on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 1:28pm.

Maine Politics

Andrew Ian Dodge and Pete Harring in recent public photos

It's a cliché that protest movements begin to splinter as soon as they gain some measure of power.

An analysis of online chatter seems to show this to be true of the Maine Tea Party movement which, after its great success culminating in today's inauguration of Republican Governor Paul LePage, is now losing some of its focus. (Although, to be fair, there has always been some measure of conflict within the group.)

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