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Posted on 10/26/2015 1:18:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' support for the Tea Party has dropped to its lowest level since the movement emerged on the national political scene prior to the 2010 midterm elections. Seventeen percent of Americans now consider themselves Tea Party supporters, and a record 54% say they are neither supporters nor opponents.
The Tea Party emerged in 2009 in opposition to the fledgling Obama administration, and many Americans took sides for or against the movement in the midterm elections the next year. Support peaked at 32% in November 2010, just after those elections, in which Tea Party supporters were widely credited with helping the Republican Party gain control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
As support gradually eroded over the next year, opponents of the Tea Party gained the upper hand and have led supporters in all 10 Gallup polls measuring views of the movement since the start of 2012. Since August 2012, support has failed to reach 25%, and it has fallen below 20% in each of the last two polls.
Meanwhile, opposition peaked at 31% just ahead of last year's midterm elections, but has dropped to 24% in the most recent Gallup poll, conducted Oct. 7-11.
Politics and Ideology Drive Support, Opposition
Support for and opposition to the Tea Party movement have been consistently divided along ideological and political lines over the last five years, with Republicans and conservatives the biggest supporters, and Democrats and liberals the strongest opponents.
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Liberal media is at it again
The Tea Party was an intermediate element that primed us for Trump
Proving once again our nation is awash in “low-info” voters!
This is all due to the press and Democrats demonizing 24/7
People who are “Tea Partiers” don’t even know they are.
lol...because Tea Party supporters know better than to give that information to groups that despise them.
Take the poll in the southern states then take it in California and New York. See the difference?
No reason to think it is not true. No reason to care if it is.
“Give up, GI. Jeb is sleeping with your wife and Hillary has eaten your macaroons.”
It ain’t a popularity contest.
“I don’t care” wins in a landslide!
The Tea Party started as a Libertarian leaning group, focused on lower taxes and opposition to Obamacare. They lost on both issues and faced the opposition of the elitist Statists in both parties.
To hell with the Tea Party. It’s time to break out the Tar and Feathers Party.
The IRS killed the Tea Party and the GOP approves 100%.
First off there is no THE T Party. It’s a loose or barely existent collection of conservative organizations and individuals who love the constitution and liberty. So before these leftist clowns ‘gallup’ off into the sunset declaring some sort of progressive victory..they need to know that and there is millions of us like minded folks about to proclaim right wing victory in 2016
That is true. Now, it is election of Paul Ryan that will drive more Conservatives to Trump.
The plan is to pass amnesty and fully fund it right up to the 2016 election. So, that Cruz and Carson will not be able to stop it because they are both strong Constitutional Conservatives.
Trump, on the other hand will be willing to act by executive order.
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