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Title: Tea Party Hits Record Level Of Unpopularity In Public Opinion Poll
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huffingtonpost.com
URL Source: http://www./2013/01/07/tea-party-poll_n_2425833.html
Published: Feb 28, 2013
Author: Ariel Edwards-Levy
Post Date: 2013-02-28 19:15:35 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 4505
Comments: 9
The Tea Party is more unpopular than ever before, according to a Rasmussen poll released Monday, with just three in 10 voters holding favorable views of the movement. Half of respondents said they view the party unfavorably. Those numbers represent a considerable dive in support since the Tea Party's heyday in 2009, when a majority of voters rated it favorably. Many of the Senate challengers with Tea Party backing were defeated in 2012, and the movement suffered another PR blow after a falling out among the leadership of the Tea Party group FreedomWorks. Although most members of the House's Tea Party Caucus were reelected in November, the group had some high-profile losses, including the defeats of former Reps. Joe Walsh and Allen West. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the chairwoman of the House Tea Party Caucus, barely retained her seat. The movement is now widely seen by the public as declining, according to the Rasmussen poll -- 56 percent of voters said the Tea Party became less influential over the past year, and just 8 percent said they identified as part of the Tea Party movement. The Rasmussen survey used automated phone calls to survey 1,000 likely voters between Jan 3. and Jan 4, with a 3 percent margin of error. Rasmussen had one of the most pronounced pro-Romney house effects of pollsters active during the 2012 election. Other polling conducted since the election has found similar results when looking at the Tea Party's popularity, but with a larger number of people saying they agreed with or were part of the movement. A CNN/ORC poll conducted in November also found that half of Americans viewed the Tea Party unfavorably, actually a modest improvement from the movement's standing in late 2011. A December poll from Politico/GWU found that 21 percent of likely voters identified with or considered themselves part of the Tea Party movement. Polls from CNBC and Kaiser in November both found that about 20 percent of adults were supporters of the movement.
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Tea is too weak ... we need something stronger --- the deliverance party !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
The poll no doubt paid for by the RNC.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Interesting conjecture; thanks for the food for thought.
Just ask yourself this. "To whom do the Teaparty pose a bigger risk,the communists in the Dim Party,or their fascist big brothers in the alleged Republican Party?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Certainly not the Isreal firsters.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Ok,I agree,but what does that subgroup of both criminal gangs have to do with it?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
It's a large subgroup of the so called Tea Party movement.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
According to you,but I have never known you to be right about anything. Hell,at one time you were calling yourself a conservative.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Fer the record, I am a PROUD Tea-Partier, and shall be fer the remainder of my days...MUD
"Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States,
#2. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#3. To: sneakypete (#2)
#4. To: Ferret Mike (#3)
Interesting conjecture; thanks for the food for thought.
#5. To: sneakypete (#4)
"To whom do the Teaparty pose a bigger risk,the communists in the Dim Party,or their fascist big brothers in the alleged Republican Party?
#6. To: mininggold (#5)
Certainly not the Isreal firsters.
#7. To: sneakypete (#6)
Ok,I agree,but what does that subgroup of both criminal gangs have to do with it?
#8. To: mininggold (#7)
It's a large subgroup of the so called Tea Party movement.
#9. To: sneakypete, meguro, Ferret Mike, backhoe, Jhoffa_, Jasmine, AuntB, byeltsin, Landru, (#8)
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the US Constitution."
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