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Monday, February 22, 2010

The Overrepresentated Tea People

Posted by 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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The Amazing Jim 1
This group will undoubtedly dry-up and blow away once republicans are in power again. They are a re-tread of the militia movement.
Posted by The Amazing Jim http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=100000076496291&ref=profile on February 22, 2010 at 10:20 AM
2
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/…)
Posted by RiOrius on February 22, 2010 at 10:27 AM
Max Solomon 3
the seeds of fascism are ever present.
Posted by Max Solomon on February 22, 2010 at 10:35 AM
Jaymz 4
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.
Posted by Jaymz on February 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM
raindrop 5
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.
Posted by raindrop on February 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM
6
I at least hope you see the irony in holding up "the facts" of demographics to arrive at a non-factual conclusion.
Posted by cliche on February 22, 2010 at 10:41 AM
Will in Seattle 7
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.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on February 22, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Max Solomon 8
@5: the tea partiers never "swung" against obama's policies (whatever those are) - they were already agin' him.
Posted by Max Solomon on February 22, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Urgutha Forka 9
I really, really hope they run a candidate for president.
Posted by Urgutha Forka on February 22, 2010 at 11:51 AM
Will in Seattle 10
@9 - they can even call him Ross Perot Jr.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on February 22, 2010 at 12:09 PM
11
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.
Posted by bpinsea on February 22, 2010 at 12:12 PM
Dougsf 12
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.
Posted by Dougsf on February 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Dougsf 13
"sitting", I meant.
Posted by Dougsf on February 22, 2010 at 12:53 PM

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