Poll: Is America Turning on the Tea Party?

[Clio the Leo]

Poll: In the Tea Party Movement, Possibilities - and Challenges
Twenty-seven Percent of Americans support the Tea Party

ANALYSIS by GARY LANGER
May 5, 2010

Conservative Republicans dominate the Tea Party movement, marking both its strengths in establishing a unified political message – and its challenges in attracting broader support.

Twenty-seven percent of Americans support the Tea Party, this ABC News/Washington Post poll finds, including 17 percent who back it "strongly" and just 2 percent who say they're active participants. Its backers overwhelmingly reject the Obama administration, and many voice dissatisfaction with Washington, favor smaller government and express economic anxiety.

While that reflects a motivated political base, the movement's broader appeal is in question. Nearly as many Americans oppose the Tea Party as support it. More say they like it less, rather than more, as they hear more about it. Far more are tuning it out than are highly interested. And association with the Tea Party may cost congressional candidates more votes than it attracts, particularly among better-educated Americans, whose election turnout tends to be high.

more...
http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/tea-party-movement-possibilities-challenges/story?id=10550231

more on the poll ...
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1109a4TeaParty.pdf

[FrenchieCat]

1. About fucking time!

Teabaggers are the sore losers from the 2008 elections.
I'm not even sure why they got all of that publicity.
Was a shame really, how the Media pandered and glorified them
in a hopes that all Americans were that stupid.

[Clio the Leo]

2. You didn't get the memo, we cant say "teabagger" anymore...

... "its racist!" :rofl:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/to-teabag-or-not-thats-still-the-question-for-conservatives.php

[Cosmocat]

9. You answered you own question ...

Right, they are the sore losers from 2008 engaging in active sedition ...

But, the media played them up cause the media's job is to do the "dems in trouble, Rs on the prowl ..."

But, THE COUNTRY IS MAD was reasonable cause to give these clowns more POSITIVE media play than any radical fringe group in our history ...

[HughMoran]

3. Yep, the same old Bush 25% contingency. Fool me twice, shame on ME

Tea Party, shmeparty, just the same bunch of clowns who give Cheney his 20% approval rating.

[Enthusiast]

7. That is right.

It's that same old far far right wingnut bunch that would gas the likes of us given the first opportunity.

[pansypoo53219]

4. only the media

was ever in love with them. more obama bashing they could slap on teevee.

[fujiyama]

5. So one minute a poll says the Tea Party is dominated by educated folks

and now another is saying the opposite.

Aren't polls grand?

[boppers]

6. "My name is Joe, and I'm a plumber, trying to start a business"

When polls give people an opportunity to lie to advance their cause, well, rethugs don't seem real interested in honesty.

[pauldg0]

8. They are!!!????

....However, after college, they stopped educating themselves, because they are conservatives...i.e...."no common sense".

Daddy got them jobs with high pay?

[otohara]

10. MSM Propped Them Up

maybe next time they have one of their organized hate fests, the MSM won't be all over it like flies on shit!