GOP poll: Tea party movement could cost Republicans in 2012

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GOP poll: Tea party movement could cost Republicans in 2012

Beware, Florida Republicans: The tea party movement that swept you into office in 2010 could cost you the next election.

That’s the takeaway message from Republican pollster and consultant Alex Patton, who conducted a recent survey showing that, by a 2:1 ratio, registered Florida voters said the tea party movement did not represent their views.

The sentiment against the tea party is significantly higher among self-described independent voters, who swing elections in Florida and who looked unfavorably on the tea party by 3-to-1, the poll showed. Only Republican voters favored the tea party movement, with 68 percent in support and less than 20 percent opposed.

“There’s a real danger to Republican candidates,” said Patton, a founder of the Gainesville-based War Room Logistics polling firm.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/22/2279580/gop-poll-tea-party-movement-could.html#ixzz1SyDmDbvT

[BeyondGeography]

1. The same goofball "independents" who voted them in

Will you ever get your heads out of your asses?

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Buyers remorse can be a horrible thing.

Lets hope so.

[struggle4progress]

3. Moral: Never say "Republican" without saying "Tea Party" in the same breath

[yurbud]

5. the only difference between the two is previous Republicans had some nodding relationship with

reality.

Even if they had no conscience, they were aware of the possible personal consequences if they crossed certain lines.

So they hesitated to pull the trigger for Bush that would have crossed the Rubicon into a more or less openly fascist state.

Tea Party candidates are either so stupid or so ambitious that they don't that are willing to do exactly what they are told by their corporate masters regardless of possible personal consequences--because they don't know they exist or they are so narcissistic they think they can't be touched no matter what they do.

[applegrove]

4. I wonder if that Tea Party group, who absconded without paying their hotel bill, is the start of

a new trend..... tea partiers who can't access easy Koch cash.