something i remember hearing about the tea party movement

[RobertPlant]

I heard somewhere that the movement is 55% female. Why do you think that is? It seems that women supported Barack Obama at a higher % than men did.

[Lasher]

1. Teabaggers are a radical fringe.

They are only part of those who did not support Obama. It therefore is not a given that more female Obama supporters would directly translate to a higher percentage of women among teabaggers. And so if the 55% statistic is true, it could simply mean rightwing women are even more batshit crazy than rightwing men, on average.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. There are no women teabaggers.

Maybe women teabaggees.

[BurtWorm]

3. You heard wrong. Don't trust your ears, Bob.

Or your memory.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/17/tea.party.poll/


Washington (CNN) -- Activists in the Tea Party movement tend to be male, rural, upscale, and overwhelmingly conservative, according to a new national poll.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday also indicates that Tea Party activists would vote overwhelmingly Republican in a two-party race for Congress. The party's GOP leanings, the poll suggests, may pose a problem for the Tea Party movement if it tries to turn itself into a third party to compete with the two major parties in this year's general election.

"If the Tea Party runs its own candidates for U.S. House, virtually every vote the Tea Party candidate gets would be siphoned from the GOP candidate, potentially allowing the Democrats to win in districts that they might have otherwise lost," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "While the concept of an independent third party is extremely popular, most Americans, including most Tea Party supporters, don't favor a third party that would result in a winner who disagrees with them on most major issues."

According to the survey, roughly 11 percent of all Americans say they have actively supported the Tea Party movement, either by donating money, attending a rally, or taking some other active step to support the movement. Of this core group of Tea Party activists, 6 of 10 are male and half live in rural areas.

Nearly three-quarters of Tea Party activists attended college, compared to 54 percent of all Americans, and more than 3 in 4 call themselves conservatives.

[LiberalLoner]

5. Oh, okay. I WAS going to venture a guess, because my thought was

that the teabagger crowd seems to be mostly those over 60, and I know that in those over 60 or so, females tend to outnumber males because the males usually die sooner. So I thought maybe that would be the reason. But looks like the original premise was wrong so my guess is wrong too.

[blm]

4. well, well, Mr. PLANT....ever hear anything that should matter to the real world?

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