Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 06/08/2010 12:02:26 PM PDT by 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.
One result that surprises me: a seeming tumble in tea party support from white Southerners. In March, only 30 percent had an unfavorable view of the movement. Now, it's 45 percent.
I don't think this is really a sign of anti-incumbent anger ending -- the results on voter views of incumbents dispel that notion. Since the last poll, however, we have had two months of news about tea party-identified Republicans winning their primaries or leading in them, which has started to diminish the independent brand of the movement.
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If the DEms can have Byrd and Rockefeller, the GoP can have Rand and Rubio
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.
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?
Rubio 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.
Maybe they are polling congressmen and finding that Congress does not like tea parties.
Where’s the barf tag ???
See Ed Morrissey’s comments at HotAir here:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/08/wapo-poll-dont-get-cocky-gop/
It’s not the least possible bias on the sample.
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’.
You’ll have to dig up Bob.
Keith Olbermann day after the 2010 election...
Shades of 2004...
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.
25R/38I/34D? No bias here at all./s
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.
RINOs have the same opinion you do !!!
Funny that.
FUWAPO
Let’s see the election results, shall we?
The only thing sagging is Helen Thomas
BINGO
Rand Paul IS a RINO.
Like his father, the ONLY area in which he is conservative is economics.
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