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Theres plenty of raw politics to toss around. joining me from the convention, john avalon, columnist for the dailybeast.com. author of "wing nuts." eric erickson, editor and chief for redstate.com. guys, thanks for being on. i want to go over with you a couple of, you know, its a leaderless movement and a lot of the members of the tea party like to say that. theres not one leader of the movement but there are people who are popular within the movement. lets talk about a couple of them. tom tancr...

To conventional wisdom here. whats interesting is tancredo hasnt been that much a factor in tea parties to date. hes known primarily as an anti-illegal immigrant activist. that hasnt been a force animating the tea party so far this year. >> exact michele bachmann? relatively new to national politics but certainly very popular. >> yeah. i mean, michele bachmann really has turned herself into an icon for the tea party movement. and the criticism that came on her, made her if anything more beloved ...