<blockquote>While moderate Republicans want their leaders to seek what they call “middle ground,” they form only one quarter of today’s Republican voters. The most conservative factions in the party — evangelicals and Tea Party adherents — now comprise more than half of Republican partisans. These folks do not worry that Republican leaders’ intransigence has led to this kind of shutdown politics in Washington. Instead, they worry that current Republican leaders are too compromising:</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/carville-greenberg/why-the-tea-partys-power-keeps-growing/">The National Memo » Why The Tea Party’s Power Keeps Growing</a>.