Earlier this week, John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira, Center for American Progress senior fellows and co-directors of the Progressive Studies Program, noted that Americans viewed socialism as favorably as they viewed the Tea Party. Now, a new Fox News poll shows that the Tea Party is viewed less favorably than another bugaboo for the Tea Party, the Internal Revenue Service:
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