RASMUSSEN: “The number of people who say they’re part of the Tea Party Movement nationally has grown to 24%. That’s up from 16% a month ago, but the movement still defies easy description.” It suggests that media efforts to smear the Tea Party movement as racist have failed.

UPDATE: It also suggests that complaints from Republican operatives about Tea Party amateurishness and lack of a national organization are wrong. When have those operatives ever achieved a 50% increase in identification in one month?

MORE: Reader C.J. Burch writes: “When have Republican operatives accomplished any thing outside of a bondage club?” Now that’s just mean.