Survey’s surprising finding: tea party less popular than atheists and Muslims

[yurbud]

Source: Yahoo News

One of their more surprising findings, Campbell concedes, (and one drawing national attention) is that the tea party drew a lower approval rating than Muslims and atheists. That put the tea party below 23 other entries--including Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Republicans and Democrats--that the professors included on their survey of "a representative sample of 3,000 Americans."

By examining which respondents became supporters of the tea party, Campbell and Putnam's survey "casts doubt on the tea party's 'origin story,' " they write in the Times--though, in fairness, it's perhaps difficult to generalize on the movement's origins from a poll sample of 3,000 respondents.

Early tea partiers were described as "nonpartisan political neophytes," Campbell and Putnam write, but their findings showed that tea partiers were "highly partisan Republicans" who were more likely than others to have contacted government officials.

"They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do," they went on.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/survey-surprising-finding-tea-party-less-popular-atheists-160220531.html

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The Tea Party is simply rebranded Republicans for two purposes:

1. To keep Republican voters disgruntled with Bush in the fold



2. To make Republicans in Congress look more moderate by contrast and pull the debate further right.

Democrats should stop bowing and scraping to these nitwit servants of the rich and strongly oppose them at every turn. They might find elections and control of Congress would be less close if they did the right and popular thing like this, but I guess too many find the pocket of the wealthy too comfortable a home to leave.

[butterfly77]

1. What in the hell are they surprised about???

""They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do," they went on."

This has been obvious since the 2008 campaign especially when Palin came on the scene. Chris Matthews had a guest on today and acted as though he didn't realize that the teabaggers were racist republiCONS. They to pretend as though it wasn't there,and it didn't just start during the campaign..

[yurbud]

2. MSM and most elected Dems act like they should be surprised by this

since both treat teabaggers with utmost seriousness and respect.

[Lorien]

5. They should instead treat them the way they do Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich

then mainstream America would barely know who they are.

[Quantess]

11. I know, right?

They are so extremely out of touch.

[yurbud]

12. that's what they are paid to be.

[sabo_tabby]

4. That's like coming out with a survey saying that child molesters were less popular than

atheists or Muslims.

Then again, ALL Pukes are racists. I don't know why anyone finds this surprising.

Teabaggers are terrorists. They should be behind bars. Their collaborators should be in therapy. But I say the same thing about Pukes generally.

[swilton]

7. That the tea-party represents any

major part of the US electorate is a figment of the MSM and our president's imagination.

[defendandprotect]

3. And why would anyone think otherwise .... ???

Everything the RW has is based on political violence --

or stolen elections ---



GOP gave start up funding for the Christian Coalition --

Richard Scaife funded Dobson's group -- other rw wealthy financed Bauer's group --


GOP radicalized the NRA to target not only liberals and moderates in the Dem Party

but in their own party --


GOP/"pro-life" movement was financed by White Christian Militia groups and Supreme Court

would not permit RICO laws to be used against hem. They solicited at Methadone Clinics

for protesters -- and paid them.


GOP/T-baggers -- funded by RW Koch Bros -- as Dem Party's DLC was funded by them!!



On and on -- on and on -- you know the song!!


37,000 lobbyists trafficking in and out of Congress now --

When JFK was president there were less than 200!!

Pay for lobbyists is huge -- $300,000 and more --

If you're a retiring Senator the going rate for lobbyist is $1 million a year!!

So you can imagine the financial rewards for corporate/fascists!!



Bernie Sanders for President 2012 --


http://www.stophoping.org

[JoeyT]

6. Well damn.

Looks like the Evil Atheist Conspiracy is going to have to step it up some. Like I didn't have enough to do already. Now I have to spend even more of my free time oppressing people.

[rpannier]

10. Just so long as your little endeavor does not

take time away from this year's War on Christmas.
Santa barely escaped last year, but we have a new and better plan
Don't drop the ball

[pampango]

8. Score one for the (belated?) common sense of the "sheeple".

;)

Always nice to see polling data catch up to DU wisdom.

[rpannier]

9. I would rate scurvy, hepatitis, 5 kinds of cancer, shingles, severe ulcers, malaria

combined above the teahadists