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The Incredible Shrinking Tea Party [But S&P Confirms Tea-Party Agenda!]
Washington Post ^ | August 05, 2011 | Greg Sargent

Posted on 08/05/2011 10:31:54 PM PDT by Steelfish

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To: ansel12

I was looking at the polls internals and it looks like a poll designed specifically to deflate TP numbers but that is not a surprise. NY Times and lib papers do this all the time. It is true that those who consider themselves active TP are about 20% this has remained steady. The problem when you ask things like ‘Do you support the Tea Party?’ many people conflate this as a money question. Even in this NYtimes polls a huge chunk either didn’t know enough or are undecided about the Tea Party ‘39%’ which Sargent fails to point out. Rasmussen is much better at polling questions designed to really find out the mood. Here’s an older poll.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/april_2011/48_say_their_views_closer_to_tea_party_than_congress

I think it should be standard for these polling organizatiosn to release a geographic distribution map of their polls. That would make analysis of these things much easier. It is interesting that 44% of respondents even in this left leaning poll said the spending cuts didn’t go far enough. Only 15% say they went too far. The rest I believe are idiots who at 29% say just right or don’t know.


41 posted on 08/06/2011 5:38:14 AM PDT by Maelstorm (Better to keep your enemy in your sights than in your camp expecting him to guard your back.)
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What the NY Times and Washington Post does not reveal is that they took the pole in their news rooms...
42 posted on 08/06/2011 6:25:42 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: Steelfish

Actually, the international banksters and Chi-coms wanted two things from Obama economicially: Massive tax increases on wage earners and a socialized medical system. Limo liberal CEO’s don’t want to pay for health insurance benefits and they want us to pay for a socialized medical system with massive tax increases.


43 posted on 08/06/2011 7:11:55 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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Yeah, Tea Partiers are changing their minds in droves!! They want more taxes. Please, Congress! Raise taxes NOW!!

Who believes this drivel???


44 posted on 08/06/2011 7:55:36 AM PDT by jch10 (I stand with Sarah Palin)
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