Talk:Tea Party movement
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I've archived the full page to Archive 3 for those interested. I chose to move the entire contents of the page in order to move the history of the discussion intact with the page. If there are discussions that need to return, please feel absolutely free to copy and paste them here. D. Matt Innis 00:30, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Starting discussion for merge
Formation
I have copied Mary's three sections on particular organizations into this article. As I mentioned above, though, we need to figure out the timeline of the very first organization, and probably go back to put precise dates on existing text (e.g., Armey, AFP). We will need, I'm sure, some flow editing in this section. Howard C. Berkowitz 21:55, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Exact dates added to beginning, establishing there were rallies well before the Tax Day protest. Did these, however, use the term "Tea Party" at the time? Howard C. Berkowitz 04:06, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Demographics and positioning
Since it has more recent data, I merged Mary's entire section on demographics, to appear before the Positioning section. From the existing Positioning, I moved the earlier Rasmussen poll.
The Positioning section, then, can be the place for discussions of the TPM working within the Republican Party, running independent candidates, or forming a third party. Howard C. Berkowitz 21:44, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Advancing the article
One way the article can be improved, a little at a time, is to keep filling out the Related Articles entries, even as lemmas, or expanding some of the topics there into full articles. In particular, the background of activists, candidates, and funders are important.
It would be nice, indeed, if the people who were so concerned about the capitalization of the title might join in this effort, which can take as little or as much time as you want to give it. Howard C. Berkowitz 23:20, 5 October 2010 (UTC)