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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
The tea party is bigger than you think
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ... arty_movement
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Twenty-four percent (24%) of U.S. voters now say they consider themselves a part of the Tea Party movement, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. That?s an eight-point increase from 16% a month ago.
Another 10% say they are not a part of the movement but have close friends or family members who are.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters say they have no ties to the Tea Party movement. Eleven percent (11%) more are not sure.
The rise in Tea party support is perhaps not surprising at a time when more voters than ever (58%) favor repeal of the national health care plan just passed by Democrats in Congress and signed into law by President Obama. Most voters remain convinced that the health care plan will require an increase in taxes on the middle class as a time when 66% of voters believe America is already overtaxed.
Forty-two percent (42%) of Republicans say they are part of the movement, compared to nine percent (9%) of Democrats and 24% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Mainstream voters view themselves as Tea Party members, while 84% of the Political Class say they have no ties to the movement. |
I think it is pretty hard to say just who makes up the party. There is this CBS poll
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/po...;contentB ody that says most of the Tea Party is made up republicans and that 62% of them see the republican party in a favorable light.
To me this isn't a new movement, it is mostly a branch of the republican party.
I'd be willing to bet there are probably not many more Tea Party members then there were those who opposed the invasion of Iraq.
Even if the Tea Party movement is growing and getting bigger and bigger, to what end will it bring us? They are simply going to vote for republican candidates most of whom helped get us in the shit sandwich we are now in.
I will be impressed by the Tea Party when I see them put an actual candidate for an office that runs under the Tea Party banner, not under the republican banner.