Sarah Palin is a jane of many trades: Tea-Partier, hockey mom, and now, environmentalist?

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He lost the state's Senate primary to Christine O'Donnell, a Tea Partier with little backing from big businesses.

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The Minessota Tea Partier and (so far) sole female candidate gave more than a nod to her Iowan roots.

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But it is spending heavily to send Florida Tea Partier Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina, a Tea Party favorite in California, to the Senate.

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If you are tea partier, that probably sounds pretty good.

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And in neighbouring Nevada the Republicans chose a tea-partier so extreme that she may yet allow Harry Reid, the unloved Democratic Senate leader, to hang on to his seat.

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Ameristar Casino's Home Nightclub has booked B-listers like perennial partier Wilmer Valderrama, his former That 70s Show costar Danny Masterson, reality vixen Kim Kardashian and former Miss USA Tara Conner for a week of hosting duties leading up to New Year's Eve.

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On the issue of government intervention he faced a tough challenge from a tea-partier in the primaries because his business participated in the cash-for-clunkers car-subsidy scheme (anathema to tea-party conservatives), but this doesn't seem to have hurt him much within the wider Republican base.

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