Friday, January 27, 2012
The beginning of the end of the Tea Party:Serious damage has been done to the Republican party. The Tea Party contingent got brushed aside by the elites and it looks as if they will be faced with with the prospect of voting for a Massachusetts Mormon moderate in the general election. Just think about this: Nothing that Romney did while holding office was conservative.And now they going to vote for the guy? They've been bitching for years that the Republicans didn't put up a "real" conservative. And after all the sound and fury - and electoral success in 2010 (!) - they are being left in the lurch. As a result, many of them will disengage from the Republican party.
posted by Quiddity at 1/27/2012 10:30:00 AM
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Really, the Tea Party is finished because a three-year old political movement has failed to produce a Republican Presidential nomination on their first try? Wow! You have high standards!
Of course, they have been mopping up state and local offices and State legislatures and making Congressional Republicans move boldly to the right just to stay in office.
But I guess that all those newly elected officials and the people who voted for them are going to walk away in a snit because the elite electorate voted for Mitt Romney in the early primaries.
This post is the sort of wishful thinking where you close your eyes so hard you see stars.
Iowa and New Hampshire, elite electorate? Really? I thought the elite electorate all lived in New York and California.
Iowa and New Hampshire, elite electorate? Really? I thought the elite electorate all lived in New York and California.
Sorry I forgot the scare quotes. It's the voters who are having the say on who gets brushed aside. Nothing "elite" about them.
"Of course, they have been mopping up state and local offices and State legislatures and making Congressional Republicans move boldly to the right just to stay in office."
While alienating independents, young voters, women, Hispanics, etc. You can't win national elections with only the support of the hardcore right wing 27 percent. You have to build a coalition. The religious right is going to have a hard time voting for a man whose religious dogma teaches that the Adam-God came down from Heaven to impregnate the (Non)Virgin Mary. A good percentage of them will stay home if Romney is the nominee. When Obama routs Willard this fall, the "Tea Party" will be revealed for what it is: a top-down corporate effort to bullshit right-wing reactionary Republican voters into believing that they are somehow something other than...wait for it...right-wing reactionary Republican voters. The "Tea Party," inasmuch as it exists at all, are just like progressives in one important sense: they want all their demands met, and they want them met NOW. They don't understand that glaciers move faster than political movements affect real change.
Of course, they have been mopping up state and local offices and State legislatures and making Congressional Republicans move boldly to the right just to stay in office.
Really
A new poll from the Pew Research Center shows that support for the Tea Party — and with it the Republican Party — has dropped precipitously in the last year. Now just 20% say they agree with the Tea Party, less than the 27% who disagree. But the news gets worse for Republicans: their favorability has dropped even further in Tea Party districts.
This is part of an ongoing trend, with polls this year consistently showing a narrowing of support for the Tea Party movement. In April, Pew found that as recognition of the Tea Party grew, their favorability declined. Specifically, disapproval rose 15 points between March 2010 and April 2011. And as TPM reported in September, according to a CBS/ORC Poll, fully 53% of the public had an unfavorable opinion of the Tea Party compared to a meager 28% with a favorable view. By October, the Occupy Wall Street movement had eked out a higher approval rating than the Tea Party.
Despite this trend, the new numbers represent a new low not only for the Tea Party but for the Republican Party. Whereas before, the growing disapproval of the Tea Party came from Democrats, moderates, and even moderate Republicans, these numbers show that Republican favorability has fallen steeply in Tea Party districts, 41% favorable to 48% unfavorable. Just a few months ago in March, GOP approval in these districts was a much higher 55%.
Yep, iffen you don't let facts get in the way, jms, the Tea Partiers are doing great!
A two month old TPM article based on a non-existent Pew poll. #HEADSCRATCH
Ah. Found it. Interesting that more than half the population claims to have no opinion on the Tea Party. That doesn't sound right. Also, we don't get to see the actual questions, so there's no way to tell if this was a push poll. In addition, the article is silent on whether the samples have been "corrected". Assuming for the sake of argument that they are not, five of the six graphs fall within the rather large (7%) margin of error of the poll. But ok. Don't worry. You must be winning.
Also, we don't get to see the actual questions, so there's no way to tell if this was a push poll.
Did you notice "Do you agree or disagree with the Tea Party" with the two charts underneath?
Talk about something being under your nose, jms.
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