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Poll: The sagging popularity of the tea parties
WaPo ^
| June 8, 2010
| David Weigel
Posted on 06/08/2010 12:02:26 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: Mouton
I agree with you. Maybe the Libs will be so happy they'll just stay home in the upcoming elections. After all, if ABC say something, it must be true. /sarc.
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:14:23 PM PDT
by
Shannon
To: Longbow1969
If the DEms can have Byrd and Rockefeller, the GoP can have Rand and Rubio
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:14:31 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: Mouton
But if it keeps the libs happy
Just another mushroom dream. Lett’em think it come november it will be hangover time for the liberals/communists.
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:14:45 PM PDT
by
Bitsy
To: smokingfrog
Poll sample size: 6 former ACORN employees.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:14:48 PM PDT
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: smokingfrog
By the way, is the WashPoo still running a daily tally of the deaths in Iraq?
Or was that just while George Bush was president?
To: NormsRevenge
If the DEms can have Byrd and Rockefeller, the GoP can have Rand and RubioRubio is fine. I am not saying we can't have candidates with some libertarian views or somewhat out of the mainstream ideas. What I am saying is we should never nominate a Paul. The father is nuts and his Paulbot followers remind me of Larouchies. The son seems to have some of the same ideas and it is only a matter of time before we find out he's been hanging around with Truthers and Anti-War wacko's.
To: smokingfrog
Maybe they are polling congressmen and finding that Congress does not like tea parties.
To: smokingfrog
"There are no tea parties. Just tricks and illusions.
We won..."
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:21:36 PM PDT
by
avacado
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:21:41 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: smokingfrog
To: Longbow1969
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt he won’t go down that path,, for now,, like Brown.
To say the politics of today is in turmoil and flux like none seen for quite awhile if ever is an understatement,, there are gonna be ‘bumps’.
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:23:47 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: mrmeyer
You’ll have to dig up Bob.
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:24:56 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Keith Olbermann day after the 2010 election...
Shades of 2004...
To: smokingfrog
Wishful thinking??Yep. I do hope the local tea parties keep visible and active. It can get pretty tiring fighting demons all the time. Hope we don't get pooped out.
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:27:58 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: Blagden Alley
25R/38I/34D? No bias here at all./s
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:28:15 PM PDT
by
princeofdarkness
("Obama Lied. Liberty, Morality, and Prosperity Died.")
To: smokingfrog
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll includes questions about the tea parties that have the nascent movement's popularity slipping badly. Overall, since the last poll, the percentage of Americans who hold an unfavorable view of the movement has jumped from 39 percent to 50 percent. The leading edge of that has been a collapse in support from 18-29-year-olds. In March, they had a positive, 43-38 view of the tea parties. They've swung hard to a negative view, 27-60. Exact numbers aside, there's probably more truth than falsity to these results.
Why?
Precisely because the Tea Party groups eschew any sort of coordinated action, platform, or message. To those not already involved, there's nothing to define the Tea Parties beyond what they're against.
As some of us have been saying all along, outrage and emotion can only get you so far, before folks just begin to lose interest.
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:28:37 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Longbow1969
RINOs have the same opinion you do !!!
Funny that.
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:29:22 PM PDT
by
o2bfree
(This president is giving me a headache!)
To: smokingfrog
FUWAPO
Let’s see the election results, shall we?
The only thing sagging is Helen Thomas
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:30:44 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Every time history repeats itself the price goes up)
To: Longbow1969
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:31:05 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: o2bfree
Rand Paul IS a RINO.
Like his father, the ONLY area in which he is conservative is economics.
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posted on
06/08/2010 12:32:02 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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