Reply #36: Check the polling data [View All]

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Polls are consistently showing tea party support in excess of BOTH Republican and Democratic party support.

Many of these people are the ones who abandoned the GOP to their fate in 2006, then turned around in 2008 to vote Democratic.

The rhetoric of people on this board, being typical of what we are seeing these days, ensures that those people will not be voting D again.

I think you people WANT the GOP in control and the Dems to be the minority party. If you don't, maybe stepping back and realizing that the bulk of electoral politics is in influencing the undecided and independent vote might help to realize how counterproductive is the accrual of a low-class reputation to our side.