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Jim DeMint on the birth of the Tea Party movement

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Tea Party fervor is bigger than ever as the 2012 presidential race heats up, and conservative Sen. Jim DeMint’s new book, “The Great American Awakening: Two Years That Changed America, Washington and Me,” provides a timely look at the birth of the movement and his role in galvanizing American support to fight big spending and corruption in government leading up to the watershed elections of 2010.