Rasmussen: Tea Party Tops GOP on Three-Way Generic Ballot

Rasmussen ^ | Dec 07, 2009

[TomGuy]

In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided.

[TomGuy]

This should shake up the GOP leadership to the core.

[mmichaels1970]

Wow.

[Steamburg]

The important thing here is that the GOP needs to realize that with a RINOectomy, they are the Tea Party.

[DManA]

If republicans are willing to swallow their pride, and their core ideology and join us we could have a winning coalition. The third party in this country are the Republicans. They are the spoilers.

[x_plus_one]

Our county GOP sponsors tea parties...

[heiss]

GOP should get rid of those so called “bipartisan centrists/moderates” who always seem to find some far-left cause to advance (cap&trade, campaign finance reform etc).

[cripplecreek]

This should shake up the GOP leadership to the core.

You would think so.

[TomGuy]

It gets even worse:

73% of Republican voters believe their leaders in Washington are out of touch with the party base.

[tgusa]

I don’t think anything can shake those fossilized old pharts.

[silverleaf]

this should elect more democrats

divide and conquer is the only way they can win

[Jagdgewehr]

Another 22% are undecided.

22% waiting for the dust to settle between the the "tea party" party and the GOP before chosing sides?

[HGSW0904]

49% of Democrats have no opinion on the Tea Party movement one way or another.

.................goodness. They really are brain-dead.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[ilgipper]

THAT is remarkable. A movement getting almost zero positive coverage in the major press has passed up a 150 year old major party. The GOP needs to wake up and quickly, because the table is set for the GOP to retake the lead nationally over a radical left wing democrat party. Add GOP + Tea Party and there is a significant majority.

[Jagdgewehr]

Indeed. It’s not like they weren’t told what to think.

[Williams]

Conservatives are a feisty bunch very independent and they are quick to identify with the tea party and to send the GOP a message.

However, the poll also shows that splitting off as a third party puts democrats in power. So let’s not get too cocky.

[EricT.]

I guess you, along with the rest of the Gutless Old Party, learned nothing from Jim Jeffords, Arlen “Scottish Law” Specter and Juan McAmnesty.

[TADSLOS]

Saw it coming a long way off. You reap what you sow, GOP.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I guess you, along with the rest of the Gutless Old Party, learned nothing from Jim Jeffords, Arlen “Scottish Law” Specter and Juan McAmnesty.

There are enough of them, by this point, to adequately staff an ongoing monthly. ;)

[Right Wing Assault]

This should shake up the GOP leadership

You mean the GOP "leadership?"