Tea Party Protests Create Online Sales Boom


	Tea Party Protests Create Online Sales Boom

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5e68cca1-65f4-481e-bc0d-b42388799a67/F82CFAB9-1AE4-4E3E-B8B1-AFF02532622E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/08/tea-party-protests-create-online-sales-boom/" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/08/tea-party-protests-create-online-sales-boom/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.foxnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/08/tea-party-protests-create-online-sales-boom/"><H1>Tea Party Protests Create Online Sales Boom</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/08/tea-party-protests-create-online-sales-boom/"><P>Grassroots organizations have produced a cottage industry of Tea Party-themed products that are
      funding nationwide protests of government spending and bailouts -- and they're generating a mini-stimulus to boot.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/08/tea-party-protests-create-online-sales-boom/"><P><A href="http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,6983,00.html" target="_blank">Click here to see some of the products.</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/08/tea-party-protests-create-online-sales-boom/"><P>Online
      retailers are recording hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales of mugs and sweats, buttons and bumper stickers, with much
      of the proceeds going toward organizing the tax-day tea parties, takeoffs on the original 1773 protest of British taxes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/08/tea-party-protests-create-online-sales-boom/"><P>"We try to fuel that money
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