Is tea party warming up to Romney or giving up?

Is tea party warming up to Romney or giving up?

By KRISTEN WYATT
The Associated Press

Published Feb 6, 2012 04:11PM MDT

Denver • Long skeptical of Mitt Romney, tea party activists are either warming up to the GOP presidential front-runner or reluctantly backing him after abandoning hope of finding a nominee they like better.
Whatever the reason, the former Massachusetts governor who is coming off of back-to-back victories in Florida and Nevada now is picking up larger shares of the tea party vote than he did when the Republican nomination fight began. And that fact alone illuminates the struggles of the nearly t...

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