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Jim DeMint's Clout Tested By Senate Primaries

Sen. Jim DeMint's long march to push his party sharply to the right now hinges on a handful of races that will help determine whether he'll emerge as a power player in the Senate Republican Conference -- or remain on the outskirts of his caucus.

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06/01/12 Anti-Compromise GOP Set to Reshape Senate Source: Bloomberg.com Outcomes in the Indiana, Texas and Nebraska Republican primaries are raising the odds that South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint will move closer to remaking the ranks of U.S. Senate Republicans in the image of the anti-tax Tea Party-dominated House caucus.
05/31/12 Rising Anti-Compromise Republicans Set to Reshape... Source: Bloomberg.com Outcomes in the Indiana, Texas and Nebraska Republican primaries are raising the odds that South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint will move closer to remaking the ranks of U.S. Senate Republicans in the image of the anti-tax Tea Party-dominated House caucus.
05/23/12 Sen. Jim DeMint, Tony Perkins, Bishop Harry Jackson... Source: PR Newswire WASHINGTON , May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council President Tony Perkins will join Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), Bishop Harry Jackson and pastors from across denominational lines for a news conference at the Senate swamp to show their support for the Defense of Marriage Act and marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
05/23/12 Do conservatives want Obama to throw citizens in jail... Source: Charleston City Paper - Charleston SC Conservatives today agree almost universally that getting rid of ObamaCare is their No. 1 goal â not only because it is too costly, but if we don't get rid of it now, it will become a permanent part of American political life, much like Social Security and Medicare.
05/21/12 Florida Democrats ding Marco Rubio with a song Source: ABC - KAPP 35 - Yakima WA Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio delivered a red meat speech to the South Carolina Republican Party in Columbia on Saturday, calling President Obama the most "divisive figure in modern American history."

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James Warren "Jim" DeMint (born September 2, 1951) is the junior United States Senator from South Carolina, serving since 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party and a leading member in the Tea Party movement.

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