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National Polls Shatter Myth Of Tea Party As Right Wing
Fringe Group
Average Americans say they have more in common
with Tea Party than establishment
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Whether you love or hate what the formerly Libertarian Tea Party
has morphed into, one thing is for sure, it's portrayal as a
lunatic right wing fringe group by the controlled corporate
media and the White House is a complete fallacy, as evidenced
by multiple new national polls.
Firstly, a poll of 1,000 registered voters, conducted by the
Winston Group for an education advocacy group, found that four
in ten Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents.
According to the survey, 17% of respondents identified themselves
as "part of the Tea Party movement". Of those, 28%
said they were independents and 17% were Democrats, leaving
only a slim majority of 57% identified as GOP.
The poll also noted that 80% of Tea Party supporters are dissatisfied
with Obama's job performance, a negative figure 3% higher than
that of Republicans who disapprove of the president's performance.
The major issues driving the Tea Party followers, according
to the Winston poll, are jobs/the economy and the exploding
federal deficit. a huge majority of 95% declared that they believed
Washington "Democrats are taxing, spending and borrowing
too much."
Another national poll by Gallup finds that, although
those identifying themselves with the Tea Party are more likely
to be employed, conservative men, they are otherwise "quite
representative of the public at large," in terms of race,
age, and educational background.
The poll found that opposition to the healthcare bill is perhaps
the most distinctive characteristic of Tea Party supporters,
with 87% declaring its passage a bad thing.
Finally, a third poll, conducted
by Rasmussen, finds that 48% of voters believe
that the average Tea Party member is closer to their political
views than Obama.
Among voters not affiliated with either major political party,
50% say they’re closer to the Tea Party, while 38% side
with the President, the survey finds.
A previous
Rasmussen survey, released last week, found that
47% of voters empathized more with the views of Tea Party members
than to Congress. Only 26% felt closer to Congress.
So, whether you be indifferent or for or against the Tea Party,
it is way off base to depict it as a stereotypical conservative
fringe movement, just as the intelligence insulting dinosaur
media consistently has.
Neither is the movement built around a minority of "birthers"
as
Obama has intimated.
Of course, a vast portion of the corporate media is engaged
in an effort to frame
opposition to big government as extremist,
racist and dangerous, because without big government
and the status quo of the two party state, their own monopoly
over information flow would come crashing down around them.
Andrew Malcolm of the LA
Times comments: "While the inconvenient polls
may make media generalizers uncomfortable, it could also discomfit
both major parties just seven months out from those crucial
midterm elections. Congressional Republicans fare awfully in
Tea Party minds, too, despite rhetorical efforts to catch up
with the movement at times."
Contrary to the notion that the Tea Party movement was sparked
following the election of Obama, it actually grew
out of the 2006 Boston Tea Party event and the End the Fed movement
which was started by Ron Paul supporters in 2007.
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