PJTV: Poll Shows Likely Voters Still Support Tea Party
For the second week the PJTV/Pulse Opinion Research Tea Party Tracking Poll shows that 54% of US Likely Voters support the Tea Party movement.
Likely Voters who support the Tea Party movement were asked, “About your level of support for the Tea Party, have you publicly shown support for the Tea Party Movement by speaking openly about it or is your support for the Tea Party Movement a private matter?” Last week fully 52% stated that they support the movement privately only; this week the number is 53%.
The poll also looks at membership in the Tea Party. Last week 9% of Likely Voters self-identified as members of the Tea Party movement. This week the number is 6%. We will be continuing to track this over time.
The last of our four regular questions, asked each week, is whether the interviewee is likely to vote for a candidate for Congress who has the support of the Tea Party movement. Last week that number was 48%; this week it is 47%.
The Tea Party Tracking Poll also includes two topical questions each week. This week we asked interviewees about the Ground Zero Mosque, and about the Health Care Bill. The Poll found that 52% of Likely Voters would like to see the Health Care Bill repealed. And fully 58% oppose the Ground Zero Mosque.
The full topline report is available here. PJTV subscribers can also see the crosstabs here.
The Tea Party Tracking Poll is a PJTV survey. The telephone survey of 1000 Likely Voters was conducted by Pulse Opinion Research on August 8, 2010. Pulse Opinion Research, LLC is an independent public opinion research firm using automated polling methodology and procedures licensed from Rasmussen Reports, LLC.
The poll question I’d like to see:
“Should the TEA Party movement declare the GOP obsolete?”
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I think that everyone that reads PJM should support a third party. Personally, I think the Mises Institute Libertarians are the best option. Voting for the gov mafia and the Dem/Rep circus, will be voting for the National Security State and the Underground Reich. Voting for the Dem/Rep Party is really voting for fascism and the welfare/warfare leviathan state.
This is why Libertarians will be the first group thrown under the bus. The problem with them is that much like us Liberals, they think they’re smart and have all the answers.
It’s kind of like the indy music scene. Hard core Libertarians can tell you they’ve believed in free markets, liberty and secure borders before the Tea Party. They’ve got “street cred”. They are in fact the equivalent of Political Hipsters who will lecture you about Hayek ad nauseum.
The America electorate, God bless them, has no time for these finer points. If the Libertarians get fed up and take their ball elsewhere… well we have mixed feelings about Nader and the Gore election.
The problem is Republicans seem not to support Tea Party Positions.
In fact, the Democrats (with their party affiliation hidden from view) sound more like the Tea Party than the Tea Party.
The Stupid (er Republican) Party just doesn’t get it. The people who aren’t going to vote for them will never vote for them. Stop trying to appease that crowd and start trying to ‘dance with who brings you.’
I do believe that the republicans will have this one chance to finally figure it out, or there will be a push for a New Party. (I don’t say third party as I think that the Republicans will discover that democrat lite is going to be the third party.)
My estimate is that by February 2011 the Republicans will have convinced themselves that Repealing Health Care isn’t in thier best interests and tweaking the massive takeover is the only way to go. After all, standing for something will only garner a Presidential Veto. (Heaven forbid they heap the blame on him again in improve their chances in 2012, no, no, no, no… Must sellout the people who put you in office.)
I just wish Stupidity were a comodity, Republicans seem to have NO shortage when it comes to that.
You are the same “jd” that was commenting on Thomas Sowell’s latest novel and couldn’t seem to understand it and none of us thought you even read it. I suggest if you are going to utter such inane comments you at least try to use different screen names.
Read the comments section in the Telegraph and you will see that the Tea Party phenomenon is global. I’ve heard many Brits lamenting the fact that they don’t have a Tea Party of their own. We tried the “something for nothing” approach since WWII with disastrous results; the ponzi scheme has reached its inevitable conclusion and the Tea Party is the logical alternative for reasonable people who understand that wealth and prosperity are created by empowered individuals and retarded by big government.
Things, including mysteriously vapid tea-bagger talking points, are flopping left and right, no rhyme or reason attached, seemingly giving the impression that the universe and all its various denizens (whoever you are) are acting/not reacting, taking action/resisting decision-responsibility to the point that some of us gather that there in fact may be no purpose or cognizant design in any of it. How else do you explain Sarah Palin, Adam Sandler, Rob Schnieder, Michelle Malkin (post tranny surgery) or any of the tea-bagger buffoons?
Gotta stop drifting around with your reality construct and being too cute for the morons in your “party”, figure out that you’ve been had, and kill this ugly duckling. You mistakenly believe that you got the power and must misuse it because life is short and full of thoughts and educated ideas that get in the way. Will you forever end this reign of error?
The day the bagger dream went sour, shot right back to Palin’s/Malkin’s/Dumbo’s base. There was blood on the ground, blood on the sand, blood all around. Tracks on the ride of the not-so-bright cartoon elephant (an apt metaphor). The day the right-wing dream was debased, and so you all went home to your various trailers and hovels under rocks and in drains. The nurses told you that the shot would make things “clearer” and your faces paled. And there was no doubt at all, no two ways about it, it was the day Palin’s/Malkin’s/Dumbo’s dream was debased. I saw a cracker who flipped off my wife and she told him what had gone down – they did not know the extent of the show, or who was being ripped off. That people had died for their little media ride. And Dopey and Mickey, Brer and Pluto, probably Gumby too, although no one knew why he was there. They all secretly prayed, and there was no doubt at all, no two ways about it. It was the day Palin’s/Malkin’s/Dumbo’s dream was debased.
Mr. Gordon,
I don’t know what you are on or what planet you are on, but everything you said is incomprehensible to say the least. From what I see, I hope more of your persuation are just like you, because I don’t see any smarts coming from you. Your shades are up and maybe the lights are on, but for sure, no one capable of intelligent discourse is home.
One thing is sure, if your side wins, even you will be in the re-education camp. And you will be in a cell with a Tea Bagger you despise and both of you will have a last shower together, never to be heard from or seen again. I believe Lenin called your type the “useful idiots”. Enjoy!
Any number of anecdotes may describe the seemingly capricious character of one’s life. Yet, we so often value constancy and predictability. We construct systems, formal and informal, that are in service of our existential anxiety. That is, we are comforted (but not really) by knowing that Mom loves us, our minister is moral, the water we drink is safe, etc. If this process actually worked, then why are we anxiety ridden, drug and alcohol addicted, violence prone, or hang around with the stooped nattering nabobs, er, “patriots” et. al., baggers? My psyche-mantra is “political movements are toxic; When faced with too great a challenge, Run and Hide; when you can’t run, Roll Over/Play Dead; Nobody Cares; You are your own worst enemy. The answer is that life is absurd, pointless, and ultimately terminal.”
Rather than searching for scapegoats, one would be better served to engage the process, and ignore the various bafoons in it for their own largese. That is, finding pleasure and purpose in the face of the enervating turmoil, tension and tedium we usually surround ourselves with. Engaging life in all its inequities, unfairness, and meanness, or in spite of them.
Some of us find we are lucky(?) enough to have options. Most people in the world have little or no options. Choices create their own anxieties. For Sartre, absolute freedom (ultimate options) is impossible. It’s the poker game we play in which we are dealt a ‘pretty good hand,’ and we have ‘enough’ chips to bet with, and we think we can ‘read’ the other players, and by odds we are ‘entitled’ to win the next hand, and the bar maid smiled oh so sweetly at you as she set down your drink exposing a ‘soul-engulfing’ cleavage, and you know you are ‘better’ than anybody at the table, and so on. Do you play the game, do you fold, do you dump the table, do you begin weeping with self-pity? It doesn’t really matter, except to you, and ultimately, whether you hang with scoundrels of the right, left, or hyper dimensions, you don’t matter as far as the game you think you’re playing .
Life can be a feast or you can have an insatiable hunger. Don’t expect to satisfy your hunger, your hunger is you. [Here’s the wizard’s caveat] – Be reasonable with your appetites and how you satisfy them. Don’t put on your plate more than you can stomach. Try to aim for a reasoned pursuit of life.
I’ve taken off the robe and the pointy hat, donned a red rubber nose and clown’s too big floppy shoes; back to the role of likeable opposition.
The Tea Party movement has limited credibility in my view. They attack government waste on the social services side, but ignore waste in the Pentagon. Recently read that the expected price for the new F-35 fighter plane will be between $250 and $300 million EACH when all the upgrades, correction of mistakes, get factored in. The military wants over 2,000. No wonder our country is bankrupt when defense contractors can line their pockets like that.
So no one thinks I’m picking on the Pentagon, I think Medicaid spending could safely be cut in half. That opinion is based on working 25 years in social services programs. Put the remaining money to pre-natal care; well baby care; child care; promotion of healthy living lifestyles; and care for catastrophic illness.