Buyer’s Remorse

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The Pew Research Center has some startling new numbers about Tea Party favorability in alleged “Tea Party Districts”:

Another snippet from this poll indicates a sharp decline in Republican Party favorability in Tea Party Districts:

The Republican Party’s image also has declined substantially among people who live in Tea Party districts. Currently, 41% say they have a favorable opinion of the GOP, while 48% say they have an unfavorable view. As recently as March of this year, GOP favorability was 14 points higher (55%) in these districts, with just 39% offering an unfavorable opinion.

I’d guess that voters are fed up that the anti-socialism snake oil sold to them by the Tea Party didn’t work as promised.

Comments

  1. JimC146 says:
    November 30, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    >I’d guess that voters are fed up that the anti-socialism >snake oil sold to them by the Tea Party didn’t work as
    >promised.

    What are you talking about? What anti-socialism snake oil has failed to work?

    I will be willing to wager that most people polled have no clue what the TEA Party is really about and that since the TEA Party has been vilified in the media, by pundits, and by Hollywood elitists, what people disagree with is a distorted image of what the TEA Party has been reduced to in the minds of those being polled and not to the values the TEA Party represents: smaller government, fewer taxes, reduced spending, increased individual liberty. Put those individual attributes up on a poll and lets see the results…

  2. Mark says:
    December 1, 2011 at 9:57 am

    “TEA Party has been vilified in the media, by pundits, and by Hollywood elitists, what people disagree with is a distorted image of what the TEA Party has been reduced to in the minds of those being polled and not to the values the TEA Party represents: smaller government, fewer taxes, reduced spending, increased individual liberty.”

    I think you’re giving the media waaaay too much credit for the decline in popular opnion of the Tea Party. If there is one thing that the Tea Party is not lacking it has been favorable coverage, Fox News straight up GAVE THEM MONEY, not to mention the fact that they basically own conservative talk radio. A poll by the Washington Post found that the majority of Tea Party members believed the media coverage to be fair. Not only that, but it has received a disproportionate amount of media coverage to it’s size, which really works to their advantage. Perhaps you could illuminate somce specifics about the Tea Party that the public is confused about?

    You see, if you look at the demographic, the Tea Party movement is really a collaboration between libertarians and the religious right in order to shift the balance of power back to Republicans in Washington. I think a key element of the Tea Party that you fail to mention is the notion of “taking back the country,” because the Tea Party values you described are the same as the libertarism.

    What we are seeing has less to do with the media, even if we assume that they did have some role in “distorting the image of the Tea Party,” and more to do with the fact, by successfully taking back the House, all the Republicans have managed to is constipate legislation moving through congress and the public is getting sick of it. They don’t want to go back to this fundamentalist mentality, they want results that are forward thinking and progressive that the devisive rhetoric and practices of the Tea Party have clearly not delivered.