<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><EM>Gee</EM>, gosh, couldn't really see this coming. . .</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">"In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard, and David E. Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame, say they have collected data indicating that the tea party is <A style="RIGHT: auto" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/opinion/crashing-the-tea-party.html"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#005790>"less popular than much maligned groups like 'atheists' and 'Muslims.'"</FONT></A> </div>
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