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Media Exaggerate Tea Party's Sway

Catz Part Deux

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Media exaggerate Tea Party's sway, data suggests - Yahoo! News

Smith and Martin note that recent surveys charting the demographic profile of Tea Party supporters have turned up strikingly similar — and unsurprising — results. "In fact, there is a word for what poll after poll depicts as a class of largely white, middle-class, middle-aged voters who are aggrieved: Republicans."

That conclusion tracks the recent geographic breakdown of Tea Party strongholds put together by a PBS project called Patchwork Nation. That study found the highest quotient of Tea Party activists clustered in counties it characterizes as "Boom Town" regions, places that "experienced rapid growth around 2000 — and the worst part of the housing crash that followed." Here is the project's map showing where Tea Party sentiment is strongest:
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Hilarious, but didn't you know this already?
 
:lol:nice hit piece...



BREAKING NEWS, TEA PARTY LEANS REPUBLICAN!!!!! :lamo
 
Morality Games said:
Tea Party = Republican.
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I don't think your statement is perfect, but it's not far from the truth imo.

I'd be willing to bet that many of the independents in the tea party movement are people who nearly always vote republican and felt disenfranchised after 2006 and 2008 and started considering themselves independent conservatives.
 
I find it kind of funny that the Tea Partiers are blaming Obama, who came into office after the crash began. They should be blaming the president whose policies started the whole process that finally culminated in the collapse of our economy - Bill Clinton. Of course, Obama is actually making things much worse, but he and Bush merely stepped into the shoes that Clinton provided. Those who wax fond for Clinton need to reexamine their misplaced adoration. Clinton screwed them, as well as the rest of us.
 
danarhea said:
I find it kind of funny that the Tea Partiers are blaming Obama, who came into office after the crash began. They should be blaming the president whose policies started the whole process that finally culminated in the collapse of our economy - Bill Clinton. Of course, Obama is actually making things much worse, but he and Bush merely stepped into the shoes that Clinton provided. Those who wax fond for Clinton need to reexamine their misplaced adoration. Clinton screwed them, as well as the rest of us.
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I wouldn't stop at Clinton and remember the savings and loan implosion under Bush 41.
 
So from this story it seems....

A large majority of the Tea Party population vote republican (Note, not necessarily are registered republicans but tend to vote republican).

Some random opinion columnist thinks it has "less influence" then others suggest, which is a completely ambiguous comment as there is nothing concrete there. How much are the "others" suggesting? Is "less" still a decent bit if the "suggested" is huge? Who made the original suggestion. It was an attempt to get an opinion piece portrayed as a news piece by quoting a guy giving an opinion.

Some other random person thinks those that think it can become a national "party" are deluding themselves. Which, ironically, seems to be geared to be a shot at Tea Partiers based on the implications and the tenor or the story however its primarily NON-Tea Partiers who are most commonly propogating the notion of some kind of national "Tea Party Party".

So,

Tea Partiers are a republican leaning group spread over the country whose amount of influence is unknown at this point and likely can't become a national party even though there's no major legitimate attempts by the movement to become such.

Can I become a Blog writer by saying Water is Wet and George Carlin is Funny, because it seems like stating the obvious and what's pretty much already known is all it takes based on this "news" item.
 
Catz Part Deux said:
Media exaggerate Tea Party's sway, data suggests - Yahoo! News



Hilarious, but didn't you know this already?
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I love when surveys tell me the patently obvious.

"A recent survey indicated that 17-year old boys think about sex a lot."
"A recent survey indicated that most Ellen viewers are female".
"A recent survey indicated that gay men are a key demographic for Cher".

The fact is, it's impossible to take the tea baggers seriously because the era of big government and huge deficits sure as hell didn't start in 2009. But I guess you cannot complain too loudly when the people responsible are members of your own party. Apparently, big government is only bad when you are not in charge of it.
 
stekim said:
I love when surveys tell me the patently obvious.

"A recent survey indicated that 17-year old boys think about sex a lot."
"A recent survey indicated that most Ellen viewers are female".
"A recent survey indicated that gay men are a key demographic for Cher".

The fact is, it's impossible to take the tea baggers seriously because the era of big government and huge deficits sure as hell didn't start in 2009. But I guess you cannot complain too loudly when the people responsible are members of your own party. Apparently, big government is only bad when you are not in charge of it.
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So true, so true. Sadly. ;)
 
stekim said:
I love when surveys tell me the patently obvious.

"A recent survey indicated that 17-year old boys think about sex a lot."
"A recent survey indicated that most Ellen viewers are female".
"A recent survey indicated that gay men are a key demographic for Cher".

The fact is, it's impossible to take the tea baggers seriously because the era of big government and huge deficits sure as hell didn't start in 2009. But I guess you cannot complain too loudly when the people responsible are members of your own party. Apparently, big government is only bad when you are not in charge of it.
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Its hard to take the "balls in the mouth" crowd seriously when they use vulgar terms like "teabagger".

If you want to discuss balls in ones mouth. I suggest the sex and sexuality section. :thumbs:
 
stekim said:
I love when surveys tell me the patently obvious.

"A recent survey indicated that 17-year old boys think about sex a lot."
"A recent survey indicated that most Ellen viewers are female".
"A recent survey indicated that gay men are a key demographic for Cher".

The fact is, it's impossible to take the tea baggers seriously because the era of big government and huge deficits sure as hell didn't start in 2009. But I guess you cannot complain too loudly when the people responsible are members of your own party. Apparently, big government is only bad when you are not in charge of it.
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While the term Tea Party Movement may be a 2009 phenomenon, tax day protests have been going on since the 1990's in recent history. However, momentum has shifted and gained since 2009. So you're right, it didn't start in 2009, it actually has been around for almost 20 years.
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
Its hard to take the "balls in the mouth" crowd seriously when they use vulgar terms like "teabagger".
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Vulgar is in the eye of the beholder. I find it vulgar that people are pretending to care about something that we've had for decades. Like they just noticed. Please.
 
stekim said:
Vulgar is in the eye of the beholder. I find it vulgar that people are pretending to care about something that we've had for decades. Like they just noticed. Please.
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If you concerned yourself with facts instead of "balls in ones mouth" perhaps you would realize tax day protests have been happening for decades. Including tea parties at least since 07.
 
Ockham said:
While the term Tea Party Movement may be a 2009 phenomenon, tax day protests have been going on since the 1990's in recent history. However, momentum has shifted and gained since 2009. So you're right, it didn't start in 2009, it actually has been around for almost 20 years.
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Well, we are not talking about tax day protests, so I'm not sure your post is on point. And how much do you want to bet that the tea baggers stop "protesting" when a Republican lords over the Nanny State again? I don't recall any big tea parties under the last one. And no one in history was bigger government than good ole dubya.
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
If you concerned yourself with facts instead of "balls in ones mouth" perhaps you would realize tax day protests have been happening for decades. Including tea parties at least since 07.
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See above. I'm not talking about tax day protests. If it's not April 17th it's not a tax day protest. And at last check the tea baggers whine every day. Odd indeed.
 
stekim said:
Well, we are not talking about tax day protests, so I'm not sure your post is on point. And how much do you want to bet that the tea baggers stop "protesting" when a Republican lords over the Nanny State again? I don't recall any big tea parties under the last one. And no one in history was bigger government than good ole dubya.
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Again if you want to miss facts with "balls in ones mouth" rhetoric you would realize by listening to us we were upset with bush's stimulous as well.


And obamas gov is bigger than bush's by a lot.
 
Stekim has credibility with me on this subject because he was bashing Bush for overspending back when many teabaggers were still sucking his balls.
 
stekim said:
See above. I'm not talking about tax day protests. If it's not April 17th it's not a tax day protest. And at last check the tea baggers whine every day. Odd indeed.
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So lerhaps the teabagees can tell us when we should have "started"....

In otherwords where is the line you would approve of, "libertarian"
 
Catz Part Deux said:
Stekim has credibility with me on this subject because he was bashing Bush for overspending back when many teabaggers were still sucking his balls.
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I dont find anyone who uses terms "teabager" to have any credibility. It does not foster inelligent debate and it simy demonstrates a lack of civil discourse by ou left of center "friends".

And catz like everyone else. If you want to talk about balls in ones mouth i suggest the zex and sexuality forum. In other words your better than this. :shrug:
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
Again if you want to miss facts with "balls in ones mouth" rhetoric you would realize by listening to us we were upset with bush's stimulous as well.


And obamas gov is bigger than bush's by a lot.
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No it's not. As of right now it's pretty much the exact same size. Will it eventually be bigger? Sure. But here's a newsflash for you. It will get even bigger with the next President. How do I know this? It ALWAYS does.
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
I dont find anyone who uses terms "teabager" to have any credibility. It does not foster inelligent debate and it simy demonstrates a lack of civil discourse by ou left of center "friends".
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In my opinion, it demonstrates contempt for a movement I consider deeply laughable. And, I'm not left of center. ;)
 
Catz Part Deux said:
Stekim has credibility with me on this subject because he was bashing Bush for overspending back when many teabaggers were still sucking his balls.
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True. Because Stekim is not a hypocrite or a teabagger come lately. That's why I cannot take them seriously. Shit, the vast majority of tea baggers voted for W. You can't make this stuff up. They vote for W and I'M the liberal? Again, you can't make this stuff up.
 
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