Poll: Teabaggers are not typical Americans

[BurtWorm]

No shit.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/tea-party-poll-elections-2012_n_787887.html

WASHINGTON — Tea party backers fashion themselves as "we the people," but polls show the Republican Party's most conservative and energized voters are hardly your average crowd.

According to an Associated Press-GfK Poll this month, 84 percent who call themselves tea party supporters don't like how President Barack Obama is handling his job – a view shared by just 35 percent of all other adults. Tea partiers are about four times likelier than others to back repealing Obama's health care overhaul and twice as likely to favor renewing tax cuts for the highest-earning Americans.

Exit polls of voters in this month's congressional elections reveal similar gulfs. Most tea party supporters – 86 percent – want less government intrusion on people and businesses, but only 35 percent of other voters said so. Tea party backers were about five times likelier to blame Obama for the country's economic ills, three times likelier to say Obama's policies will be harmful and twice as apt to see the country on the wrong track.

These aren't subtle shadings between tea party backers and the majority of Americans, who don't support the movement; they're Grand Canyon-size chasms.

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[T Wolf]

1. Call it the difference between human beings and something else. But with the media behind them,

they can represent themselves as "the people."

[vi5]

2. It's a futile effort...

..the fact is that the cable news/talking head media portrays them as "we the people" and the voice of regular America. And our elected politicians (Democrats included and especially) only pay attention to what is reported on cable news, so therefore it is that alternate reality that is getting factored into votes and legislation and everything else they do that impacts all of our lives.

It's damn depressing is what it is.

[newtothegame]

3. To be sure, our own use of 'we the people' on DU don't exactly fly either.

But I'm sure there are polls that could show either side as the 'normal majority', depending on how you want to spin it.

Ed for sp

[jtrockville]

4. Hopefully the narrative will evolve to Teabaggers vs NORMAL folks.

[RKP5637]

5. Hopefully the more people hear details of Teabaggers they'll realize they're

not their 'cup of tea,' so to say.

Teabaggers, not your normal folks cup of tea!