By Emelie Rutherford Observers trying to gauge how newly elected Tea Party candidates will impact the debate over defense spending said they expect such lawmakers to generally support a strong military while trying to make the Pentagon's budget more efficient, if not smaller. Some analysts said they don't see how members of the Tea Party--the loosely-defined populist and conservative political movement that wants to dramatically cut government spending--can try to trim the federal deficit without shrinking the Department of Defense's…
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