from the WaPo:
Is Occupy Wall Street overblown?Posted by Chris Cillizza at 05:47 PM ET, 10/12/2011
Just how closely is the American public watching the ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” protests going on in New York City and around the country? Not very, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.
Just 17 percent said they were following the protests “very closely”. Independents — at 19 percent — were keeping the closest eye on the “Occupy” efforts while just 12 percent of Republicans did the same.
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The numbers on “Occupy Wall Street” compare unfavorably to the amount of interest in the tea party movement at a similar time in its birth.
In an April 2009 Pew poll, more than one in four (27 percent) said they were following the story very closely including 43 percent of Republicans. .........(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/is-occupy-wall-street-overblown/2011/10/12/gIQAjnjyfL_blog.html