Tea Party Movement Looks Stalled; Half Like it Less as they Hear More

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/tea-party-movement-looks-stalled-half-like-it-less-as-they-hear-more/

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A major force in the 2010 midterm elections, the movement has stalled in public popularity, its support well below a majority and decidedly lukewarm. And Americans by a broad 23-point margin say the more they hear about the Tea Party movement, the less they like it, rather than liking it more.

That negative buzz has worsened from a 9-point gap in an ABC News/Washington Post poll as the movement was gathering speed two years ago. And its avenues for resurgence may be limited: Interest in learning more about Tea Party is down 7 points from spring 2010.

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While overall support is roughly balanced with overall opposition, “strong” opponents outnumber strong supporters by 2-1. But perhaps most damaging is the buzz: Fifty percent of Americans say the more they hear about the Tea Party, the less they like it; just 27 percent say they like it more. That compares with a much closer (albeit still negative) 43-34 percent split on this question in April 2010

These views have grown more negative particularly among young adults, seniors, women, moderates and people in the $50,000 to $100,000 income range, all with 10- to 17-point increases in “like it less” responses as they hear more about the Tea Party movement.


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[southernyankeebelle]

1. We saw the action of the Tea Party in congress. They don't like the word "compromise". You

saw you couldn't get them to move.

[TlalocW]

2. I can't understand why

Why would the majority of people with at least a little common sense and taste be put off by an insane minority holding up pictures of the president depicted as Hitler? For some reason, it doesn't make the common sensers want to join them; the Tea Party is tapped out on getting nutjobs to join them, and all they're doing is pissing of Nazis by depicting their hero as a Black man. Strange.

TlalocW

[tanyev]

3. All that's left are the bitter dregs.

[Jester Messiah]

6. I thought that was all there was to begin with. [nt]

[Kaleva]

4. I don't see many signs announcing Teabagger meetings anymore where I live

Come to think of it, it's been awhile since I've seen one. They used to be rather common place.

[Populist_Prole]

5. Even at their truest form of libertarians at their inception, they were full of shit

Very soon though they were co-opted by fundies and other conservatives and so the tea party pretty much unabashedly became the hard/far right wing of the GOP. It's "stalled" because the percentage of citizens who are far right is small, and the teabaggers are seen as the extremists they are ( though it took a while for many to realize this )