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Posted on 08/08/2011 2:23:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A majority of voters reject the depiction of Tea Party activists as “terrorists,” a new Rasmussen poll shows … but not a terribly large majority, given the ridiculously demagogic attack it represents. Fifty-five percent say that the Tea Party didn’t act like “economic terrorists” during the negotiations over the debt ceiling and deficit spending, while 29% — more than one in four voters — see equivalency between the Tea Party’s use of representative government and, say, al-Qaeda:
Democrats and their media friends have charged the Tea Party with being economic terrorists during the congressional budget debates, but most voters don’t see it that way.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of Likely U.S. Voters, in fact, say members of the Tea Party are not economic terrorists. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 29% believe Tea Party members have been terrorists during the budget debates, while another 16% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Perhaps tellingly, while 53% of Democrats view Tea Party members as terrorists, 57% of voters not affiliated with either major party disagree, as do 74% of Republicans.
Interestingly, despite the 29% who claim that the Tea Party is a terrorist organization, only 43% think that they made the situation worse in the negotiations. That mostly comes from Democrats (7/73), while Republicans are supportive of their role (53/17). Independents are split evenly at 37%, with 14% saying no impact and 12% unsure. That doesn’t indicate too much danger for the GOP sticking to Tea Party principles in the fight over spending and debt.
On the sales pitch for the Tea Party as a form of economic terrorism, Democrats seem to be ringing up mainly a No Sale. They get a majority among self-described liberals, but not a terribly impressive one (55/31) and almost an even split among black voters, their most loyal constituency (45/42). Independents reject it in almost the same ratio as the general sample, 21/57, as do self-described moderates, 29/50). The negative gets a majority response in every age demographic, and majorities or pluralities in every income demographic, even the <$20K category (31/45).
The fact that they can even get 29% to agree that pursuing policy changes through representative government is akin to “terrorism” is depressing, but it has a silver lining. It looks like Democrats and self-professed liberals are marginalizing themselves fast in this media meme du jour.
On that note, here’s a video from a friend of mine in the Twin Cities area. Sunny’s production needs a little tweaking, but she captures the disconnect between this meme and reality, and the impossible nature of the sales pitch:
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Approximately 1/3 of the population are liberals so it does not surprise me at all.
Absolutely they are. And they are showing themselves to be un-hinged and incapable of dealing with the gravity of the situation. It. Is. Over. One way or another.
Jews (das Weltjudentum) were made the scapegoat for Germany's economic problems following World War I. He called them a plague and a cancer in his book Mein Kampf (published in 1926) and called for their extermination. The way the Left is acting today, we may have some similar irrational behavior to follow their irrational thinking concerning the true cause of the economic disaster we are witnessing.
LOL! Bookmarked
Great day! Clinton looks like his own grandpa in that pic!
I vehemently object to the idea of this poll in the first place. Why is this poll even being pursued by anyone?
29% are die hard socialist as well...so imagine that.
After being beat over the head with those words by the libtard media machine all weekend, I’m really not surprised. Besides, pollsters always ask more D’s than R’s.
I AM a Teahadist.
“...while another 16% are undecided.”
How in the world can anyone be undecided at this point? You’re in or you’re out.
The same number of people who probably think al-Queda are “freedom fighters” as well as Obama 2012 voters.
Look, the “tea party” is not an organization so they can all BITEME!
He said we’d “die off” when the economy wasn’t an issue anymore. He may still be proven right but there will be no way to know for sure until well after Obama is out of office.
There is no “America” anymore. We need to become two countries.
The media just hates us. hehe!!!!!
From just reading the headline, I suppose that...
71% of Americans DO NOT SEE TEA PARTY SUPPORTERS AS TERRORISTS.
Once again, 1/3 of the country has their head so far up their a$$ they cannot see the light of the sun.
And most of them live in Massachusetts.
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