Question Of The Day: The GOP And Conservative Grassroots

Tea partiers descended on Capitol Hill yesterday for a rally that drew 10,000 people, and prominent Republicans like Eric Cantor Mike Pence spoke to the crowd. Are grassroots conservatives ready to get behind figures of the Republican establishment, or do GOP politicians still need to approach the tea partiers, and their populist energy, with caution?

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