Poll: Tea Party support hits new low

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/258055-poll-tea-party-support-hits-new-low

October 26, 2015, 07:26 am
Poll: Tea Party support hits new low

By Mark Hensch

Americans’ support of the Tea Party is at its lowest point since the movement’s inception, according to a new poll.

Support for the Tea Party is at 17 percent, Gallup found, down 15 points from its high.

Another 24 percent now say they are Tea Party opponents, Gallup said Monday, while 54 percent identify as neither supporters nor opponents of the group.

The Tea Party first appeared in national politics in 2009 as a response to President Obama’s first term in the Oval Office.

Gallup said that the group initially received 28 percent support before reaching a high of 32 percent during the November 2010 midterm elections. Tea Party activists then helped create the momentum for the GOP’s takeover of the House during that election cycle.

Opposition against the group peaked at 31 percent before last year’s congressional midterms, Gallup added.

The polling agency said that support for the Tea Party had never dropped below 25 percent until the new survey.

Gallup conducted its latest poll of 1,015 adults aged 18 and older nationwide via telephone interviews from Oct. 7-11. It has a 4 percent margin of error.

[bulloney]

1. But the media gerbils will continue to give the Teabaggers credibility as if they're a supermajority

while ignoring what American voters should really be focusing their attention on.

[NCjack]

2. And, the other House GOPers tremble in fear that the 40-person Tea Party caucus will primary them.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Explaing why "Tea Party" is now being avoided as a term used by the mass media.

Palliative care, mainly.

Now it is "The Freedom Caucus" that is in vogue to avoid the term now properly despised by all sane Americans.

Even the tea people hate their own former moniker as much as everyone else!

[Vogon_Glory]

4. I'd Be Happier With The Results If More People Remained Opposed

I'd be happier if more people remained opposed to the Tea Party while Tea Party support numbers plunged. Instead, what the polls seem to indicate a lot of apathetic "whatever."

Being a Texan, I still wince at the thought of the 2014 elections, where Teabaggers votes rolled over the good guys because of too much "whatever."