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Texas candidate shows tea party's strength in the state

Dan Patrick is a political dirt-digger's dream, a candidate with a history of incendiary comments, a bankruptcy and two hospitalizations for mental health issues, one after an attempted suicide.

He is also poised to become lieutenant governor of Texas and thus one of the most powerful and important politicians in the country's second most-populous state.

The tea party movement may be flagging elsewhere in the country. But here in Texas it's going strong, shoving establishment Republicans out the door and promising to push this already deeply conservative state even further right.

Texas is no longer the bastion of country-club Republicanism that twice elected George W. Bush governor in the 1990s. Even the departing governor, Rick Perry, might have a hard time surviving a GOP primary these days; Patrick has gained considerable traction with a pledge to end in-state tuition for college students in the country illegally, a policy that Perry defended at great political cost when he ran for president in 2012.

While Patrick's story, with its harrowing valleys, may be a testament to perseverance and personal redemption, his expected election Nov. 4 also speaks to the impotence of Texas Democrats, whom Patrick promises to further undercut with the formidable powers the lieutenant governor wields as the state Senate's presiding officer.

He has promised to appoint fewer Democratic committee chairs and to scrap the long-standing convention that requires two-thirds support to bring a bill to a vote on the floor; the latter has been one of the few levers of power held by outnumbered Democrats in Austin, the state capital.

But it's not just Democrats who fret about Patrick's ascension. Many fellow Republicans wince at his heat-seeking rhetoric, especially on illegal immigration, and fear his short-term success will hurt the party in the long run, given Texas' shifting demographics and rapidly growing Latino and Asian populations.

"It's going to bite us in the butt," Jerry Patterson, who lost to Patrick in a nasty four-way GOP primary, said in an interview. Patterson, the state land commissioner, plans to vote for the Libertarian candidate for lieutenant governor rather than support his party's nominee.

Patrick was not reachable for comment, part of a lay-low strategy that includes avoiding news coverage by withholding the time and place of his public appearances. (He does keep followers apprised on Facebook: "It's been a SELFIE kind of day. On my SW flight today the pilot took a SELFIE of all of the passengers ...then Miss BeBe from Fort Worth took one, I met her on the plane, & I took a SELFIE tonight speaking to a huge gathering in Dallas.")

Patrick, 64, a two-term state senator from Houston, came to the Legislature via talk radio and, before that, sports broadcasting, where he acquired a reputation for stunts such as painting himself blue to support Houston's former NFL team, the Oilers. (He shares a name with a better-known sportscaster who works for NBC.)

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Tea Party Republicans Highly Motivated to Vote in Midterms

Story Highlights 73% of Tea Party Republicans extremely/very motivated to vote Much more motivated than other Republicans, non-Republicans Tea Party Republicans most focused on deficit, Iraq and Syria

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Although the Tea Party has not been as visible in this year's midterm elections as it was in 2010, Tea Party Republicans have given more thought to this year's elections and are much more motivated to vote than are non-Tea Party Republicans or other Americans. About one in four Americans continue to say they support the Tea Party.

These results, from a Sept. 25-30 Gallup poll, demonstrate that despite what appears to be a lower profile this year, the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party -- about 18% of all national adults -- remains a powerful force, given their higher interest in the election and higher motivation to vote. This is not a new phenomenon; Republican Tea Party supporters gave the 2010 midterm elections more thought and were more motivated to vote than other Republicans, although all voters in general were paying more attention that year.

Previous Gallup research has shown that Tea Party Republicans are considerably more likely than other Republicans, as well as the rest of the population, to identify as conservatives. As befits this ideological orientation, Tea Party Republicans interviewed in a Sept. 4-7 survey were significantly more likely than other Republicans and the rest of the population to believe the government is doing too much, that there is too much government regulation of business and too much federal government power, and that government should be limited to providing only the most basic functions.

Tea Party Republicans also differ from other Republicans in the importance they place on a number of specific issues in terms of their midterm election vote. In particular, Tea Party Republicans are much more likely than other Republicans to say the federal budget deficit and the Affordable Care Act are "extremely important" to their vote, and they view a number of other issues as at least somewhat more important than do non-Tea Party-supporting Republicans. At the other end of the spectrum, Tea Party Republicans place somewhat less importance than other Republicans on equal pay for women and the availability of good jobs as issues.

Even with these differences, the top issues for Tea Party Republicans are generally the same as the top issues for other Republicans, except that Tea Party Republicans -- reflecting their overall higher levels of interest in the elections -- generally give the top issues at least a slightly higher importance rating.

More broadly, compared with all non-Republicans, Tea Party Republicans differ most in the importance they place on the deficit and the situation with the Islamic militants, and the lack of importance they place on equal pay for women.

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