Poll: Tea Party Opposition Ties Record High

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

DANIEL STRAUSS – MAY 8, 2014, 11:15 AM EDT

Opposition to the tea party has returned to its all-time high, according to a new Gallup poll released Thursday.

Gallup, which has been tracking opposition since 2010, found that 30 percent of those surveyed said they opposed the tea party while 22 percent said they supported the movement. A larger 48 percent said they had no opinion.

In 2010, 30 percent of national adults told Gallup that they were opponents of the tea party while 32 percent said they supported the movement. At the time 38 percent of national adults said they had no opinion or neither supported or opposed the movement.

The 30 percent identifying as opponents is the highest level Gallup has found since it began asking the question. Broken down by party affiliation, 41 percent of Republicans or people who said they lean Republican said they supported the movement in the most recent survey. Eleven percent said they were opponents of the movement and 48 percent said they were neither supporters or opponents. By contrast, in 2010, 61 percent said they were supporters of the movement while just 5 percent said they were opponents. Thirty-four percent of Republicans and those who identify as leaning toward Republicans said they had no opinion.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gallup-poll-opposition-tea-party

---

[Laelth]

1. Good. k&r n/t

-Laelth

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Nothing planted on astroturf will ever grow

Somebody should tell the Koch peddlers that.

There is no tea party movement. There is only the Koch brothers paying to bus useful idiots to town hall meetings, right wing demonstrations or armed confrontations with the federal agents.

[AndyTiedye]

8. Astroturf Looks Great on TV

Of course it's not real, but neither are the elections in that part of the country,
and they needed to invent the teabaggers to explain the elections.

[Blue Owl]

3. Pack your tea bags, the party's over.

SEE YA!

[Vincardog]

4. So? The Koch Roaches will just reinvent themselves again and climb out from under another rock

[loudsue]

5. And gallup is known to poll far more "conservatives" i.e., republicans, than most polling companies

So that's pretty good!

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. What's interesting is that 7% of "Democrats" support them. That might help explain....

DU's relentless anti Obama contingency.

[herding cats]

7. It could, in part, be people lying about their party affiliation

I've seen before where people say they've done that in polls.

[pampango]

9. "For Democrats, the numbers are roughly the same in the most recent survey compared to 2010."

You might be right.

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. You'll recall that a certain blonde with a blog, worked with Grover Norquist to kill ACA.