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Politics The Overrepresentated Tea People
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:10 AM
These are the facts:
According to the survey, roughly 11 percent of all Americans say they have actively supported the Tea Party movement, either by donating money, attending a rally, or taking some other active step to support the movement. Of this core group of Tea Party activists, 6 of 10 are male and half live in rural areas.Let's never lose sight of these sobering facts about the Tea Party people.
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This group will undoubtedly dry-up and blow away once republicans are in power again. They are a re-tread of the militia movement.
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For comparison, about 20% of the US population lives in rural areas. Which is important to know; otherwise that 50% statistic is pretty meaningless...
(source: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/…)
(source: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/…)
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A populist movement needs a national candidate - think Ross Perot. I hope these nut jobs convince a fairly high profile person to carry their banner as an Independent, because it will take away more votes from Repubs than Dems. My fear is infiltration - forcing their ideology into finge, electable candidates, starting at the local level.
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It really doesn’t matter how many they are or where they live. The takeaway here is that there is a politically natural swing against Obama’s policies by a millions of people – far more than would ever identify themselves as tea partiers.
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I at least hope you see the irony in holding up "the facts" of demographics to arrive at a non-factual conclusion.
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Look, I know sometimes they get an attractive young woman to speak for them, but they're really really old white people.
They'll never BE happy.
Now that they're not allowed to yell at kids to get off their lawn, they use the Internets.
They'll never BE happy.
Now that they're not allowed to yell at kids to get off their lawn, they use the Internets.
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@5: the tea partiers never "swung" against obama's policies (whatever those are) - they were already agin' him.
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Please people, their proper and chosen name is Teabaggers - remember? We shouldn't allow them to back out on that one just because they discovered it meant something they didn't like.
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33 million active Tea Party supporters? I don't think so, unless "taking some other active step" includes setting in front of Fox News nodding your head.
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