Poll: Tea Party could loom in elections

[The Straight Story]

Poll: Tea Party could loom in elections



WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. congressional hopefuls running as Tea Party candidates could fare better than those running as Republicans, a Rasmussen Report released Monday indicates.

In a three-way generic ballot test, results found Democrats attracting 36 percent of the vote, the Tea Party candidate garnered 23 percent and Republicans collected 18 percent, Rasmussen said in a release. Another 22 percent of respondents said they were undecided.

Among voters not affiliated with either major party, the Tea Party movement emerged victorious, the results indicated. Thirty-three percent of people surveyed said they preferred the Tea Party candidate, 30 percent said they were undecided, 25 percent would vote for a Democrat, and 12 percent favored the GOP.

The respondents were asked to assume that the Tea Party movement organized as a new political party for purposes of the survey, Rasmussen said.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/12/07/Poll-Tea-Party-could-loom-in-elections/UPI-66191260220199/

[niceypoo]

1. LMAO

The loonies now officially run the asylum

[notesdev]

2. Signs of the times

Both a fictional, non-existent party and "undecided" beat both of the major parties in our two-party system.

[cali]

7. except it's rasmussen which means it's fiction.

[notesdev]

8. I wouldn't be so sure of that

IIRC his polling was the most accurate in the last election, so I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.

[cali]

9. not that I recall. Can you post evidence for that claim?

[notesdev]

10. check it out

http://www.fordham.edu/images/academics/graduate_schools/gsas/elections_and_campaign_/poll%20accuracy%20in%20the%202008%20presidential%20election.pdf


What's the deal with people around here asking for links for stuff that they can find in 2 seconds by typing in the appropriate keywords in Google? (in this case "pollster accuracy 2008")

[FrenchieCat]

3. KKK making a revival?

Interesting.

[bridgit]

4. That's fantastic news! Those foam rubber teapots will be easier to *flick* off their doddering heads

[Electric Monk]

5. you = teabagger fail (news)

some people say

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. This is interesting...

...seeing as the Tea Party Party basically has no ideological foundation. The remnants of the Republican Party have an ideological foundation, even if it's one that sucks and to which they rarely adhere.

Really, what do the teabaggers represent aside from extreme narcissism and a sort of vague old-people ignorance and bigotry? There's really not much there. I've yet to see any of these teabaggers actually propose a solution to any problem.

[quaker bill]

11. The solution

is always less taxes and less government. It is a "one size fits all" solution to all imaginable problems. However, it comes with a "reduce the deficit but don't cut my benefits" caveat.

When considering these folks, it is important to remember that they believe government incapable of solving problems. Therefore when running for seats in government they will propose no solutions, except dismantling government. As they find that all problems are caused by government, destroying it is the presumed cure. They are quite uninterested in constructive ideas.

The good thing is that they have become quite capable of seriously splitting the formerly solid republican voting block.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

12. That doesn't sound so far off from the current ideological underpinnings of the Republican party.

But I think the teabaggers take it to an extreme. I've never seen a group so convinced of their own purity with so little evidence to back it up.