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CNN Poll: Unfavorable view of tea party on the rise

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CNN Poll: Unfavorable view of tea party on the rise – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

CNN Poll: Unfavorable view of tea party on the rise
mug.cnnpolitics By: CNN Political Unit

Washington (CNN) - Nearly half of all Americans have an unfavorable view of the tea party movement, putting it in the same company as the Democratic and Republican parties, according to a new national poll.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicates that 32 percent of the public has a favorable view of the two year old anti-tax movement, which also calls for less government spending and a more limited role for the federal government in our lives. The 32 percent favorable rating is down five points from December.

Forty-seven percent of people questioned say they have an unfavorable view of the tea party, up four points from December and an increase of 21 points from January 2010. That 47 percent is virtually identical to the 48 percent unfavorable ratings for both the Democratic party and the Republican party in the same poll.

It looks like the popularity of the movement might be waning. I wonder if this is a short term blip or a longer term trend.
 
Eh...its just like with Ross Perot....you have a certain segment of the population that is easily excited...but then they start to look closer at the actual policies and beliefs and it isn't quite as exciting as it seemed at the time.
 
Eh...its just like with Ross Perot....you have a certain segment of the population that is easily excited...but then they start to look closer at the actual policies and beliefs and it isn't quite as exciting as it seemed at the time.

Ross perot was exciting? :shock:
 
Ross perot was exciting? :shock:

He was to that "Tea party" segment of the population. Don't you remember all those old white folk that had reform rallies in their driveways and garages. They were all excited to be part of a "grass roots" movement....until they realized that it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be...and actually that their savior was a little whackjob himself.
 
He was to that "Tea party" segment of the population. Don't you remember all those old white folk that had reform rallies in their driveways and garages. They were all excited to be part of a "grass roots" movement....until they realized that it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be...and actually that their savior was a little whackjob himself.

Perot was before I really got interested in politics, so I don't remember much about him other than he was wacky.
 
Perot was before I really got interested in politics, so I don't remember much about him other than he was wacky.

Wacky he was.....but similar to the tea party crowd....he inspired thousands of bluehaired Americans to decorate their garages with flags and wear funny outfits and have wacky rallies to support the "Reform Party".
 
Ross perot was exciting? :shock:

Not really, but I got a real kick out of Admiral Stockdale. He made John McCain look like someone who was completely in control of his faculties. Hehe.
 
Title Correction

CNN Poll: In Act of Desperation CNN Reports Slanted Polls Reflecting Unfavorable View of Tea Party on the Rise

They're desperately Hoping for Change I see, and willing to craft polls to fit their template.

Just some journOlist kids having a little fun.

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oh if a CNN poll says so.....


I mean come on, with shumer and dems blaming the tea party now for a shutdown they want... in comes loyal CNN to fan these idiotic flames.
 
Not really, but I got a real kick out of Admiral Stockdale. He made John McCain look like someone who was completely in control of his faculties. Hehe.

Admiral Stockdale was a great American thrust into an arena he was not prepared for. Only American weenies belittle such a man for not being a great politician.
 
It's pretty transparent what is going on. Obama is looking more the incompetent to more people with every passing day... and they're trying to shift focus from it. Since when has the Tea Party been news lately? Not since the midterms.

This is what the journOlists are trying to cover up:
Poll: Obama's approval hits new low - Jennifer Epstein - POLITICO.com

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Not really, but I got a real kick out of Admiral Stockdale. He made John McCain look like someone who was completely in control of his faculties. Hehe.

I felt so sorry for Stockdale when he wandered around his podium, tapping his hearing aide, like he was all alone on stage. Sad.
 
This is just more proof that the Democrats, along with their supporters are scared ****less of the American People.

I say it's a great day in this country, when our government is that afraid of the people.
 
oh if a CNN poll says so.....


I mean come on, with shumer and dems blaming the tea party now for a shutdown they want... in comes loyal CNN to fan these idiotic flames.

It wasn't an online poll Rev.

I'll never again give credence to any published poll unless I see the questions asked. Wordsmithing is everything. Don't see the questions they ask? Don't believe the poll.

Here you go MaggieD. Nate Silver is an excellent statistician and has more info on the subject.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime...e-americans-have-unfavorable-views-tea-party/

here is a link to questions http://pollingreport.com/politics.htm from the nate silver article. Theres a crapload in there from CNN polling.
 
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Really irrellevant you can get polls to say whatever you want. this one seems to follow the lead of democrats renewed attacks on the tea party.

You did not follow the link in Mega's post did you?
 
Really irrellevant you can get polls to say whatever you want. this one seems to follow the lead of democrats renewed attacks on the tea party.

I posted a list of the questions used, feel free to take a look.

You did not follow the link in Mega's post did you?

To be fair, I may have updated it after he read it when I saw Maggie's comment.
 
You did not follow the link in Mega's post did you?



well since my post was at 3:35pm and he edited said link in at 3:40, what do you think?



Looking at the 1st question, support for the tea party remains about 30% over the last year and a 5 percent dislike increase over same time.... Hardley newsworthy, unless you running the ball for the dems, like cnn is willing to do....
 
Looking at the 1st question, support for the tea party remains about 30% over the last year and a 5 percent dislike increase over same time.... Hardley newsworthy, unless you running the ball for the dems, like cnn is willing to do....

from the nate silver link. Again data is fully transparent to anyone who wants to look at the methodology.

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well since my post was at 3:35pm and he edited said link in at 3:40, what do you think?



Looking at the 1st question, support for the tea party remains about 30% over the last year and a 5 percent dislike increase over same time.... Hardley newsworthy, unless you running the ball for the dems, like cnn is willing to do....

The link I was referring to was there all the time, and you looked at the wrong part of it. We are talking "unfavorable"(see thread title), which has gone in a year and a half from under 20 to over 40 %.
 
The link I was referring to was there all the time, and you looked at the wrong part of it. We are talking "unfavorable"(see thread title), which has gone in a year and a half from under 20 to over 40 %.



seriously? even Mega said I may have missed it....



It wasn't an online poll Rev.


That's all that was posted.
 
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EVEN me?



The polling info was in the last paragraph in the link of the OP, it stated what kind of poll it was. However I did provide additional data on the second page.


maybe it was a misflow of conversation, but he responded after you made the edit, the flow of the conversation to me and seemingly to you at first had to do with your edit.
 
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