Poll: Tea party favorability falls to record low

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Sahil Kapur

WASHINGTON – The tea party has hit rock bottom in the eyes of the American public, a new CNN/Opinion Research poll found Wednesday.

Just 32 percent of respondents viewed the tea party favorably, while a record-high 47 percent had a negative view of the movement that propelled Republicans to dramatic Congressional victories last November. Fourteen percent had no opinion, and 7 percent said they've never heard of the tea party.

The figures come as dozens of tea party-backed House members threaten to scuttle a budget deal on Capitol Hill, which Democratic and Republican leaders would need to reach in order to prevent a government shutdown at the end of next week.

Tea party groups are poised to rally Thursday outside the U.S. Capitol, demanding that GOP leaders refuse to compromise and instead seek the $100 billion in cuts Republicans promised last year before the election. Neither party has come close to such a figure.

Read more at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/30/poll-tea-party-favorability-falls-to-record-low/

[Blue Owl]

1. The tea party

Pfffft.

What a crock of bullshit.

[JaneQPublic]

2. The Tea Party is destined to go the way of the Reform Party (nt)

[opihimoimoi]

3. The Baggers are Delusional and the word is out...Peeps who voted Bag have remorse for good reason

the results of their extreme views and goals are turning America off.

These are Negative People....Full of fear and bias

[applegrove]

4. The tea party was riding high and then WI protests happened.

[elocs]

5. It would be foolish to underestimate the harm they can do no matter how small their numbers are.

A lot of people were strutting after Obama's big win in 2008 and dancing on the GOP grave. So how has that turned out?

Never underestimate an enemy, even when they are down. That's the time to push them down and don't let them up. Crush them and don't forget because they won't.

[NYC Liberal]

6. 32%? It should be more like 1%. Or less..

[Tesha]

7. It's the same idiot 32% that backed Bush, that are Fundamentalist "Christians", ...

...and so on and so forth.

The underlying number hasn't changed in more than a decade.

Tesha

[backscatter712]

8. More precisely, the Tea Party's unfavorability has skyrocketed.

Which is very good - people are starting to wake up to what the Tea Klux Klan is up to, and hopefully, that means that Dem voters will be more fired up for 2012.