Posted on 08/06/2011 5:51:52 AM PDT by Maelstorm
The percentage of Americans who expressly state that they are supporters of the Tea Party movement is currently about as large at 22 percent of the population as the 21 percent who say they are liberals, according to recent but separate Gallup polls.
Meanwhile, at 41 percent of the population, according to Gallup, self-described conservatives outnumber both Tea Party movement supporters and liberals by nearly 2-to-1.
In separate polls done on July 27 and August 2, 23 and 22 percent of respondents told Gallup they considered themselves supporters of the Tea Party movement. These polls (each of which was conducted in one day) had a margin of error of +/-4 points, and Gallup warned that polls conducted in one day “are subject to additional error or bias not found in polls conducted over several days.”
In fact, the July 27 and August 2 polls showed a considerably smaller percentage of Americans saying they were Tea Party supporters than previous Gallup polls conducted over three- and four-day periods.
For example, a Gallup survey conducted April 20-23 of this year, found that 30 percent of Americans described themselves as Tea Party supporters. Similarly, a Gallup poll conducted Jan. 14-16 of this year also found that 30 percent of Americans described themselves as Tea Party supporters.
In previous Gallup polling, Tea Party support had hit a low of 26 percent in a series of polls conducted in October 2010—immediately before the midterm congressional elections—and peaked at 36 percent on Nov. 4-7, 2010—immediately after the midterm congressional elections.
In polling conducted through the first half of 2011, and published Aug. 1, Gallup discovered that 21 percent of Americans described themselves as liberals. That is the same percentage that described themselves as liberals in Gallup surveys in 2010 and 2009.
Also in polling conducted over the first half of 2011, 41 percent of Americans told Gallup they were conservatives. That is up from the 40 percent who told Gallup they were conservatives in 2009 and 2010.
Surprise surprise. Welcome to the suburbs city slickers.
Interesting number, but the problem is lack of unity and the unawareness of going into Republicaqn primaries to clean out such useless members as Boehner, Cantor et al. And of course Myth Romney too.
To John Kerry: How do you like those LEGITIMATE apples?
We as Americans have had enough of the pure crap that is coming out of Washington. The last time I checked, the Federal government works for us, no the other way around. Let’s make something perfectly clear to all of the aspiring politicians out there, the United States Constitution clearly delineates exactly what you are responsible for in executing your duties as a public servant holding office. If such a politician decides to promote their self interests over the people who have employed (elected) them, then the said people reserve the right to kick their sorry asses to the curb.
You are so right, and if you have been to the East Coast, you can feel the presence of an intractable overwhelming liberal bloc of voters from Norfolk, VA, to Boston, with only a few suburban interruptions. It’s the same from Seattle to Los Angeles too, and from Duluth to Pittsburgh. That’s quite a bit of liberal territory to defeat.
Ahhhh. It would be interesting to go back and see what sort of anti-Tea-Party stories were dominating the news on July 27 and August 2.
August 2nd was probably the day The Tea Party was being bashed for preventing a budget deal from being passed (even though they were numerically incapable of stopping it).
But, in the three or four days AFTER the budget deal was passed, it was said The Tea Party won a great victory.
So it makes sense that whoever commissioned this poll wouldn't want THAT sort of sentiment revealed in the results.
God I hope so! We need to start ‘flash’ mobbing them for once.
I would like to see how the questions were worded.
YES WE CAN!!!!
Notice how the percentage of Tea Party supporters drop after a media blitz demonizing them. Some people are still sensitive to other’s opinions of them, no matter how false. I believe that the 30% figure supporting Tea Party values is still there, many are just afraid to admit it publicly.
Yes, there are millions of folks out there who believe and think like the tea party, but don’t realize it yet, because they just don’t pay that much attention to current events.
But I wish the “tea party’ would change their name, because they are not a political party. The media is perpetuating the notion that they are some wild, crazy bunch of wierdos, when in fact they are perfectly normal, hard working people.
And it would be much higher if not for the MSM’s propaganda blitz...
+1...they didn’t count me.
Boston is the worst. Those people have truly diseased minds.
Maybe America's only hope.
Good news! I was on the fence regarding actually joining in. NO MORE! Count me as one of you from here on out!
thank you. good to know
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