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Pew: Tea Party support at record low

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Support for the Tea Party has reached its lowest point ever, as a growing number of Republicans now hold a negative view of the movement, according to a Pew survey released on Wednesday.Forty-nine percent of the public have a negative view of the Tea Party, up from 37 percent in June and nearly double from where it stood in the early days of the movement, the poll found.

Only 30 percent said they have a favorable view of the Tea Party, down from 37 percent in June.While the Tea Party has long been viewed unfavorably by Democrats and independents, the latest Pew survey found that Republicans have turned sharply against the group. Only 27 percent of centrist and liberal Republicans view the movement favorably, a 19-point drop from 46 percent in June.
In addition, non-Tea Party Republicans are increasingly likely to say that the Tea Party is not even associated with the GOP. While 41 percent of Tea Partyers say they identify as Republicans, only 27 percent of non-Tea Party Republicans say the movement is a part of the GOP.
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Read more: Pew: Tea Party support at record low - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Its sad it took people so long to have a unfavorable view of these people. Hopefully they will never again play a roll in our politics.
 
:lamo believing anything The Hill has to say about their enemies is the height of humor. Don't get out of the echo chamber much do ya?
 
clownboy said:
:lamo believing anything The Hill has to say about their enemies is the height of humor. Don't get out of the echo chamber much do ya?
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The hill just reported the numbers the poll was done by Pew.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read more: Pew: Tea Party support at record low - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Its sad it took people so long to have a unfavorable view of these people. Hopefully they will never again play a roll in our politics. [/FONT][/COLOR]
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It has actually been a year long decline for the republican party just accented by the shutdown. In November of last year 30% of the electorate affiliated/identified themselves with the republicans. Today that number is down to 20%, ouch. But over the same time period those who affiliate/identify themselves with democrats also declined, from 35% to 30%. That gap of 10% is huge, but not the worse the republicans have had. Back in March of 2009 the dems had a 38-25 advantage. But in Sep of 2010 the republicans had the advantage at 32-30%. So these things are dynamic and are good until the next major issue arises which can change things totally around in a heart beat.
 
I seem to remember just a few years ago hearing that the Tea Party approval numbers were at an all time low. That the Tea party is no more. That the Tea Party has no power in Congress. That the Tea Party was just a short fad. That the Tea Party is history. That the Tea Party is extinct.

That was a few years ago.
 
America got tired of the Beverly Hillbillies, WCW Wrestling, Larry the Cable guy, Honey Boo Boo and the Tea Party.

There is hope for this republic.
 
And it's just not alienating regular conservatives either; it appears that big businesses like US Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers and the National Retail Federation are getting on board the "sane boat" too.

I found this opinionated piece by Harold Myerson to be spot on with the GOP and it's unsightly wart. ;)
 
Perotista said:
It has actually been a year long decline for the republican party just accented by the shutdown. In November of last year 30% of the electorate affiliated/identified themselves with the republicans. Today that number is down to 20%, ouch. But over the same time period those who affiliate/identify themselves with democrats also declined, from 35% to 30%. That gap of 10% is huge, but not the worse the republicans have had. Back in March of 2009 the dems had a 38-25 advantage. But in Sep of 2010 the republicans had the advantage at 32-30%. So these things are dynamic and are good until the next major issue arises which can change things totally around in a heart beat.
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In my lifetime, going back to Truman, the Republican Party has always been the minority party.

Who put Reagan in the White House ? Reagan Democrats.

What the Democrats should be concerned with, and they are because that's why they want amnesty and double the number of legal immigration, that the Democrat party is for the first time also a minority party.

If the libertarians and conservative and moderate independents were able to pull off a third political party, guess where most of the Republicans will be headed to ?


I think as soon as there's a competent mathematician who's able to explain to those who lack the knowledge of numbers on how much just a trillion is, The Democrat Party is in deep ####.
 
APACHERAT said:
I seem to remember just a few years ago hearing that the Tea Party approval numbers were at an all time low. That the Tea party is no more. That the Tea Party has no power in Congress. That the Tea Party was just a short fad. That the Tea Party is history. That the Tea Party is extinct.

That was a few years ago.
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Well some low life forms do take awhile to realize they are dead. Cut the head off a Cotton Mouth and it still tries to bite for at least an hour. I believe the Tea Party has separated itself from the body politic.

This snake is just taking awhile to die.

I read Cruz is at 17% approval rating and the Houston Chronicle, which endorsed his campaign has now publicly regretted doing that. When a paper says you are not even a Kay Bailey Hutchinson, that is no endorsement for President. :lol:

I think he and the more identifiable Tea Party members have jumped the shark on the ACA, and debt ceiling. He and Palin attending the White House protest was a bit too much.

As far as the Pew folks go, they seem quite on the money far more often than Rassy.

Fighting for control of the rudder is one thing, threatening to capsize the ship of state if you don't get your way is another.

Seems to be a temper tantrum the radical right uses ever generation or so of late. Works the same every time.

What is the definition of insanity? :doh
 
The tea party has been totally humiliated by Obama, who stood his ground. Can you imagine how the tea party leaders are gnashing their teeth at being pwned by a black president.
 
APACHERAT said:
It's a dead giveaway, Obama's socialist policies.
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Too the soooo out of touch radical right perhaps, for the rest of the more sane world it is repeatedly doing something expecting a different result. :2wave:

I think it is far more insane for one major political party to allow a few of it's members to endanger our nation in a showdown they could never win.

"Give me the tiller or I capsize the boat" is not responsible leadership. :doh
 
APACHERAT said:
It's a dead giveaway, Obama's socialist policies.
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I expect, after the total humiliation and ejection of the GOP, we're going to hear a lot of silly talk like this from the rightwing noise machine, as it turns up the volume to 11 in order to drown out the sound of Republicans losing.
 
head of joaquin said:
The tea party has been totally humiliated by Obama, who stood his ground. Can you imagine how the tea party leaders are gnashing their teeth at being pwned by a black president.
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did you gnash you teeth when the White President was getting his way and ya'll weren't?

go ahead and lie and say "no"... we expect it.
 
notquiteright said:
Too the soooo out of touch radical right perhaps, for the rest of the more sane world it is repeatedly doing something expecting a different result. :2wave:
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When I look at the rest of the world and compare it from five years ago compared to today, you dinky dow.
 
head of joaquin said:
I expect, after the total humiliation and ejection of the GOP, we're going to hear a lot of silly talk like this from the rightwing noise machine, as it turns up the volume to 11 in order to drown out the sound of Republicans losing.
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Could you explain something for some of us, why would you be celebrating increasing the national debt to 18 Trillion Dollars and still supporting a catastrophe known as Obamacare ?

I don't see why anyone would be celebrating.
 
APACHERAT said:
In my lifetime, going back to Truman, the Republican Party has always been the minority party.

Who put Reagan in the White House ? Reagan Democrats.

What the Democrats should be concerned with, and they are because that's why they want amnesty and double the number of legal immigration, that the Democrat party is for the first time also a minority party.

If the libertarians and conservative and moderate independents were able to pull off a third political party, guess where most of the Republicans will be headed to ?


I think as soon as there's a competent mathematician who's able to explain to those who lack the knowledge of numbers on how much just a trillion is, The Democrat Party is in deep ####.
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I think it all depends on your definition of majority party. Democrats usually outnumber Republicans, so does that make them a majority party? Or is a majority party a party that has above 50% of the electorate identifying/associating themselves with that party? The Democratic Party was that from 1932 to 1960.
 
What the article doesn't say is that all political parties are near record lows. Republicans and democrats fair better than the Tea Party because they are larger. Tea party members view the tea party favorably. Republicans are split between moderates and conservatives and liberals, being statist, have a more favorable view of democrats but no party has a favorable majority.

When the punishment of Obamacare kicks in fully, opinion polls will move and elections are far enough away that this moment in history will soon be forgotten. What won't be forgotten is the money people will be forced to waste on insurance and deductibles that are worse than they had before Obamacare.
 
The GOP is dropping faster in the polls than Senator Larry Craig's pants in a Minnesota airport. And maybe the two incidents are distantly related. After years of GOP quantum weirdness, it appears the American people are finally taking notce.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read more: Pew: Tea Party support at record low - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Its sad it took people so long to have a unfavorable view of these people. Hopefully they will never again play a roll in our politics. [/FONT][/COLOR]
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Wishful thinking on your part.

The poll isn't worth much, because the questionnaire doesn't bother to give a clear definition of the "Tea Party movement". For your average responder, "What is your opinion of the Tea Party?" sounds at the moment pretty much like "What is your opinion of those guys everybody is supposed to hate right now?" or maybe " What is your opinion of Ted Cruz?".

If you ask, on the other hand: " What is your opinion of the local county and township level grassroots organization dedicated to promoting fiscal responsibility, constitutional rights and free market solutions?", or "What is your opinion of Rand Paul, Justin Amash and Thomas Massie?", or "What is your opinion of the Palin-and-Bachmann flying circus?", you will get three very different answers, will you not?

I mean, my friends, tea party activists in New Jersey spend most of their energy on promoting and supporting Chris Christie. Because, whatever negative feelings some of them may have toward some things that he says, the guy is our best hope (in Jersey and perhaps beyond) for "fiscal responsibility and market solutions" to take hold. But if you listen to MSBC and Fox, Governor Christie is something nearly opposite to the tea party movement. No, he not.
(And people working for a bit more professional and a bit less propagandistic outfits admit it freely: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/u...terly-speaker-and-tea-party-pleaser.html?_r=0)

More importantly, the root causes of the tea party phenomenon are not going anywhere. The national debt keeps mounting, the corporate welfare flows as a mighty river, the entitlement programs remain unreformed, the dubious foreign engagements linger, and our civil liberties seem to be less and less assured with every not-even-shocking anymore front-page revelation.

Why would the tea party movement go away, when all the reasons it is here are at least as urgent as they were in 2009 or 2011?
 
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Perotista said:
I think it all depends on your definition of majority party. Democrats usually outnumber Republicans, so does that make them a majority party? Or is a majority party a party that has above 50% of the electorate identifying/associating themselves with that party? The Democratic Party was that from 1932 to 1960.
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I was referring to having 50 % or close to it of the registered electorate.

One should ask who makes up the majority of America and which party do they identify with ?

The Democrat party today doesn't represent the majority of Americans but just a bunch of small special interest groups and the majority of ethnic minorities.

The rule of the Democrat Party is you support my radical minority special interest group agenda and I'll support your special interest group agenda no matter how insane it is.

Nothing is what's best for America but what's best for one minority or special interest group. The majority are completely ignored.
 
clownboy said:
:lamo believing anything The Hill has to say about their enemies is the height of humor. Don't get out of the echo chamber much do ya?
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I agree. I detest things posted from political porn sites as well. But the naked truth remains:

Tea Party
 
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