posted on Oct, 8 2013 @ 08:04 PM
reply to post by xuenchen
He is correct you can trace some of the AMMO for the Tea Party Smear Campaign to the the Blair-Rockefeller
poll. It came out of the Diane D.
Blair Center of Southern Politics & Society Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas and the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute.
Findings from the Blair-Rockefeller poll
On the heels of the 2010 mid-term elections, the Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, together with the Winthrop Rockefeller
Institute, conducted a comprehensive national poll of political attitudes and behaviors...
...the Blair-Rockefeller Poll reveals detailed characteristics of this burgeoning and homogenous movement. 91.4% of Tea Party members are White, and
85% are Christian.... Moreover, only 7.2 % of Tea Party members have less than a high school education, as compared to 13.4 % of Non-Tea Party
members. Only 8.6 % of Tea Party members are not working because they have either been laid off temporarily or have lost their job and are looking for
work, compared to 10.7% of Non-Tea Party members...
So some how it is EVIL that Tea Party members are white Christian working folks who didn't drop out of school?
...When asked a battery of “political sophistication” questions—factual questions about the contemporary government—Tea Party members
outperformed Non-Tea Party members repeatedly. Specifically, Tea Party members were more likely to correctly identify the jobs held by Attorney
General Eric Holder, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Vice President Joe Biden (Table 1). Finally, Tea Party Members share a pessimistic view of the
future. 36.9% of Tea Party members think their personal situations will get worse or much worse in the next year, as compared to 23.6% of Non-Tea
Party members. Specifically 39.2% of Tea Party Member believe their own personal financial situation will be worse in a year, as compared to 21.9% of
Tea Party members. And 62.1% of Tea Party members think the country will get worse or much worse in the next year, as compared to 38.8% of Non-Tea
Additionally the Tea Party members are well informed and see the country is headed to Hades in a hand basket. No wonder the Progressives dislike them
And then there are the questions asked about race. This is where the poll intentionally twists the questions to guarantee the Tea Party comes out as
'Racist' when that is not true.
Many start with
Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure that minorities have.... (strongly oppose or
Since the Tea Party was formed around the concept of a smaller federal government they are going to say it is not the responsibility of the federal
government no matter what the question unless the Constitution specifically states it IS the responsibility of the federal government. That is a
no-brainer and has nothing to do with race and every thing to do with the Federal government.
And to end:
Though the Tea Party only constitutes 10.6% of the population, they will remain a significant subset of the Republican Party if they maintain such
high levels of voter turnout and political sophistication. They are demographically homogenous, as are their policy preferences. Their
unification extends beyond fiscal conservatism and concern for the American debt. Tea Party members are social conservatives, and they are
particularly united in their opposition to President Obama. Their extreme racial views will make them less appealing to American Independents and
centrists. Moreover, recent efforts to cut the budget by Tea Party Republicans, that are perceived to impact Medicare, could trigger the same
fears demonstrated in Blair-Rockefeller Poll’s analysis of Tea Party responses to health care reform....
Of course twisting the questions and then reporting the poll to the media makes sure the Tea Party is viewed as having "extreme racial
In other words the Progressives are scared to death of a real honest Grass Roots Organization that they did not start, do not fund and therefore do