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Title: New poll shows 'Tea Party' more popular than Republican Party
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Yahoo
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl1017
Published: Dec 7, 2009
Author: Brett Michael Dykes
Post Date: 2009-12-07 17:20:38 by Moderate Mammal
Keywords: None
Views: 579
Comments: 22
A new Rasmussen poll finds that the tea party movement's popularity is growing, so much so that it garners more support than the Republican party on a generic Congressional ballot. The poll hints that the burgeoning discontent among conservatives within the GOP threatens to splinter the party at a time when the popularity of President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress are waning as we head into an election year. The tea party movement was conceived out of antipathy for President Obama's economic stimulus plan and cultivated by groups like Freedom Works and conservative commentators such as Glenn Beck. Its guiding principals are centered around opposition to tax increases and the expansion of federal government spending. The movement rose to prominence when it organized highly-publicized protest gatherings across the country on April 15th of this year. As reported by Talking Points Memo, the respondents to the Rasmussen poll were asked the following question: "Okay, suppose the Tea Party Movement organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district, or the Tea Party candidate from your district?" The response of all those who were polled was Democratic 36%, Tea Party 23% and Republican 18%. Further, the poll found that independents are more inclined to vote for a tea party candidate over Democratic or Republican candidates. While some Republicans have expressed dismay over the emergence of the tea party movement, others have suggested that the GOP should embrace the group and its issues. Tea party sympathizers recently proposed a resolution to make the RNC withhold its endorsement and funding unless candidates pass an "ideological purity test." The tea party movement will hold its first national convention this January in Nashville, and Glenn Beck has indicated that he intends to stake out a more activist role in politics going forward by holding seminars across the country to educate conservatives on how to run for office without the support of a major political party. But the Republican party has yet to determine whether or not they can harness the energy emanating from the right wing without being pulled out of the mainstream. This dilemma was highlighted by the GOP's November loss of a congressional seat it had held since the 1800s, after a tea party-supported candidate pressured the establishment Republican out of the race. That race suggested something rather striking: while the GOP may not be able to win without the support of the tea party movement, they might not be able to win with it either.
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#1. To: All (#0)
How's that "path to citizenship" coming along Bushbots?
Things are really going to get interesting when warm weather gets here. Anyone who didn't take the Tea Party serious is about to get a big surprise.....Tea Partiers are nothing more than 'the people', and their voices will be heard!
It's gonna be Tea baggers Gone wild.
I think the tea partiers have conducted themselves more civil than those who worship the pimp in chief! btw, nice name, hope you can live up to it! &;-)
I am content to have the third party called the "Tea Party" party.. no tea baggin' tho.. ; ~ X
I heard he doesn't even have a birth certificate. I hope so ; )
His admirers like to swear he does have one, there has been a couple of proven fakes posted, but try and get any of them to post the hospital he was born at, or the attending physician. There is NO hospital in Hawaii that will admit Obama was born there...NONE! But they like to play word games with the totally stupid population who will fall for anything!
Let's leave that for the GOP.
Gawd, that is disturbing to say the least..ewwww
I'm sorry, who is the man getting a kiss?
Come on now, you post an article about Republicans and tea bagging, written by a guy named Dykes, and you expect us to fall for it? You'll have to do better than that, son.
Coming from "Bickus Dickus"
You just can't help yourself, can you?
I would have thought a dingbat such a yourselves would a another m to the spellflame.
Thank God!
HNIC - head nut in charge !
Tote that bale - pull that barge ! White slavery !
LOL..that cartoon cracks me up, thanks. Welcome to LF BY!
And THIS has WHAT exactly to do with the Tea Party? Oh that's right - NOTHING. But let's ALL follow your doofy dots where in your world CFR-Insider Bush = GOP-bane and Outsider Palin.
If the Pubbie Party tools, pro-Globalist CFRers, and 0bama-duped Dems, and Independents don't get onboard the Tea Party Express, not only is the GOP dead, but the entire Republic royally screwed in by 2012.
Yes, there's some real rocket scientists amongst the teabaggers. A few have even mastered going poopy IN the toilet.
What's the difference between Sarah Palin's mouth and other parts of her body? Only some of the things that don't come out of her mouth are retarded.
#2. To: Moderate Mammal (#0)
The response of all those who were polled was Democratic 36%, Tea Party 23% and Republican 18%. Further, the poll found that independents are more inclined to vote for a tea party candidate over Democratic or Republican candidates.
#3. To: Murron (#2)
Things are really going to get interesting when warm weather gets here. Anyone who didn't take the Tea Party serious is about to get a big surprise.....Tea Partiers are nothing more than 'the people', and their voices will be heard!
#4. To: rebelgal (#3)
It's gonna be Tea baggers Gone wild.
#5. To: Moderate Mammal (#0)
#6. To: Murron (#4)
It's gonna be Tea baggers Gone wild. I think the tea partiers have conducted themselves more civil than those who worship the pimp in chief!
btw, nice name, hope you can live up to it! &;-)
#7. To: rebelgal (#6)
I heard he doesn't even have a birth certificate.
#8. To: Girl Next Door (#5)
I am content to have the third party called the "Tea Party" party.. no tea baggin' tho.. ; ~ X
#9. To: Moderate Mammal (#8)
#10. To: Moderate Mammal (#8)
#11. To: Moderate Mammal (#0)
#12. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#10)
I'm sorry, who is the man getting a kiss?
#13. To: Bickus Dickus (#11)
Come on now, you post an article about Republicans and tea bagging, written by a guy named Dykes, and you expect us to fall for it?
#14. To: Moderate Mammal (#13)
Coming
#15. To: Bickus Dickus (#14)
You just can't help yourself, can you?
#16. To: Moderate Mammal (#0)
New poll shows 'Tea Party' more popular than Republican Party
#17. To: Murron (#4)
pimp in chief!
#18. To: Moderate Mammal (#0)
#19. To: BorisY (#17)
#20. To: Moderate Mammal (#1)
How's that "path to citizenship" coming along Bushbots?
#21. To: all (#0)
The response of all those who were polled was Democratic 36%, Tea Party 23% and Republican 18%. Further, the poll found that independents are more inclined to vote for a tea party candidate over Democratic or Republican candidates.
#22. To: Moderate Mammal (#0)
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