We need 10% OF OUR POPULATION AS Tea Party members in order t rach cru=itical mass. 3.6 million. We have a ways to go yet.But not far.
10% of 360 million is 36 million;)
Obama received 67 million votes and McCain received 58 million votes in the 2008 election.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/
The hangup for the tea party movement is the adoption of certain politicans that support certian Rino incombents on one hand. Then on the other hand, they have been weak in laying out what they want and getting candidates to back what they want. They are great at organizing protests.