Rasmussen: 51% view tea parties favorably
posted at 7:59 pm on April 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
Sure, sure, but it’s 51 percent of the hoi polloi, not 51 percent of the Enlightened.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans have a favorable view of the “tea parties” held nationwide last week, including 32% who say their view of the events is Very favorable.
Thirty-three percent (33%) hold an unfavorable opinion of the tea parties according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Fifteen percent (15%) are not sure.
While half the nation has a favorable opinion of last Wednesday’s events, the nation’s Political Class has a much dimmer view—just 13% of the political elite offered even a somewhat favorable assessment while 81% said the opposite. Among the Political Class, not a single survey respondent said they had a Very Favorable opinion of the events while 60% shared a Very Unfavorable assessment.
In related news, 97 percent of the Political Class find “teabagging” jokes funny, even in their thousandth iteration. But only if they’re performed by left-wing cable news anchors.
Featured below, from the Dallas tea party, yet another example of the ferocious white-power structure that consumed the protests. Little-known fact, per James Carville: She was the only attendee, among hundreds of thousands, who was less than 72 years old.
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And just what constitutes the ‘political class’?
Reaps on April 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM
News editors and financial supporters of NPR.
Saltysam on April 20, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Translation:
“Since I can’t credibly refute the data from this poll, Dear Leader Saul Alinsky says I should trash and insult it”.
Seems to me that if this were a “biased” poll. it would skew right. It does not. 51% is 1$ less of America than O’bama won, and that’s all.
2004: Bush wins 51% = “Bitterly divided nation”
2008: O’bama wins 52% = “landslide victory”
Del Dolemonte on April 20, 2009 at 10:26 PM
A bigger flaw in the Rass poll is lack of cellphone sample……ie non-septugenarians.
Messed you up last time didn’t it. ;)
strangelet on April 20, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Like I said, 1% == 9.5 million votes.
And the electoral college was a blowout, dude.
365 to 173.
strangelet on April 20, 2009 at 10:32 PM
So…..51% proves the tea parties are partisan, right?
rotflmfao
strangelet on April 20, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Why look….I checked to see if Nate had something to say on the Rass poll and see what I found.
Looks like Murphy has it suss’d.
strangelet on April 20, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Ok, that women in the video’s been the first piece of evidence found in the, “why the hell is texas so great to all you people”, investigation ive been on since i got here. Congratulations. Exhibit A in the “Cmon Ernesto you’ll like Texas better than NYC” case.
Its a start. Y’all got a long way to go though.
ernesto on April 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Yes!
America! F*ck yeah!
TheSitRep on April 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Don’t want their support they are a bunch of panderers. I want them gone , defeated, run out of town, or hung from a lamppost for lieing, abusing, failing to listen to and did I say lieing to the American People.
Dems, Rino’s, we, the American People have heard from you and you’re going to hear from all of us soon!
TERM LIMITS, take their lifetime pensions and health care away, their ability to run again or lobby replace the elitist, carreerists with real citizens with real experiences running businesses, having real jobs or really fighting for their country.
dhunter on April 20, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Hmmmm…. I think we need a new term…
LawnMower… to denote those whose only ambition is to destroy, or cut down, a true grassroots movement
Stangelet= Riding mower…
Romeo13 on April 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Rasmussen was pretty much right on the money last election.
ddrintn on April 20, 2009 at 11:01 PM
strangelet, you’re just going to have to accept the fact that moonbats are a teeny tiny minority. Sorry.
ddrintn on April 20, 2009 at 11:03 PM
M-14 2go on April 20, 2009 at 10:01 PM
ditto and then some. July 4th Washington DC it is on.
seesalrun on April 20, 2009 at 11:12 PM
and watch your borders red states the Yankees are coming to escape what they brought in. I say residency requirements now for my State. Leave your liberal crap at the border.
seesalrun on April 20, 2009 at 11:16 PM
NC SC GA AL MS AND FL are all on alert. Ya’ll are coming in drives to avoid the taxes and aftermath of the destruction you voted in.
Stay out. We don’t want your kind here. Thank you very much.
seesalrun on April 20, 2009 at 11:22 PM
drives = droves sorry.
seesalrun on April 20, 2009 at 11:22 PM
I went to a a tea party (the Dallas one, in fact) and my reason was to protest big, oppressive government. I detest both Obama and high taxes but neither would be a problem if the federal government was shrunk back to it’s original intent by the original right-wing extremists, our founders.
You better look to your boy Reid and your girl Nancy. I will concede that moderate, appeasing Repubs bear some responsibility but the great majority belongs to the Dems.
Excellent post. That one fact is the one we need to be driving home during every argument we have. It is amazing how many of the idiot voters don’t have a clue that Congress went Dem in 2007. We have to hammer and hammer it home again and again! Also, about the time that gas got reaaly high is when it all started going to crap. All this Democrat green stuff like bans on drilling, cap and trade and higher fuel taxes will definitely make it worse.
mrsmwp on April 20, 2009 at 11:23 PM
need to come up with a startling tag line like green = lien or green is thinking tween. I dunno. All I know is it’s a hoax making dishonest people rich and it makes me sick
How about I am puking green?
DRILL HERE AND DRILL NOW idiots.
seesalrun on April 20, 2009 at 11:32 PM
One more reason to move to Texas.
JellyToast on April 20, 2009 at 11:35 PM
And pay no attention to the continuous sharp decline from early Sept 2008 as all polling showed the Dems would gain in both houses.
And please ignore the second continuous sharp decline immediately following election day.
If we do this amazing trick of self deception, then we can all do the snoopy dance and sing with glee…
“This is Bush fault!!”
Saltysam on April 20, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Yeah, so? It IS Bush’s fault. The end.
dcwvu on April 20, 2009 at 11:51 PM
That’s a heck of a lot of closet teabaggers!
benny shakar on April 20, 2009 at 11:54 PM
ummm…..yes, go Texas!
secede!!
then we will have a filibuster proof majority.
;)
strangelet on April 20, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Look at all these scared trolls trying to make sense.
Also, that 72 year old white man at the deus is SMOKIN’ HOT!
omnipotent on April 20, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Can you be a little more specific? Ooooh I didn’t like Bill Clinton. Yep, it’s his fault.
What Bush economic policies brought this about?
ddrintn on April 20, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Youre onto something sal. Ridicule green and its snarky effing cultists into oblivion. *grin* Its late.
Green-eyed monster – jealous
Green with envy – envious
Green – inexperienced, untested, untrained
Greenhorn – novice, trainee, beginner
Green around the gills – pale, sickly
Guess this means BO is green.
Too freakin late for NC. How the hell else would NC have gone into the BO column in ’08. Yankees have moved into NC like locusts trying to escape the swamp of misery THEY CREATED up nawth.
They screwed up their own states now theyve moved in to screw up ours talking all the while about how damn great it was up nawth and why isnt the south more like the nawth.
ITS BECAUSE WE DONT DEFECATE WHERE WE LIVE, A$$HOLES.
*&%^*&$#^
kooziegirl on April 21, 2009 at 12:04 AM
It’s Obama’s fault. The beginning.
Saltysam on April 21, 2009 at 12:10 AM
See that bead of sweat dripping off their nose? That’s what they do when the try to read.
Saltysam on April 21, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Ras polls the folks who will give them the numbers they seek. Any poll is reflective those who are asked, which is not necessarily representative of anything other than the answers sought. American’s views on the tea parties should have been way higher than that reported.
thetowncrier on April 21, 2009 at 12:19 AM
They’ll change the subject rather than answer, because they have to reason somehow that he didn’t borrow, tax, and spend enough, in order to defend their indefensible position.
Saltysam on April 21, 2009 at 12:25 AM
That’s a heck of a non-sequiter!
AUINSC on April 21, 2009 at 12:31 AM
AUINSC on April 21, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Oh, the political class didn’t like the tea parties?
I wonder why?
Oh yeah, that’s right…because we put their dumb asses on notice that we are awake and angry with them.
Silly me.
Black Adam on April 21, 2009 at 1:45 AM
Take a look at this and tell me if it has anything–at all–do with racism:
Houston Tea Party
Also, if you’re weren’t at your local tea party, try and tell me you weren’t sorry you didn’t go.
These are “right wing extremists” of all races and colors turning out to say “Yes” to Freedom and “No” to the tyranny of Big Goverment and confiscatory taxation.
Onward to July 4th! The voice of the we, the people, will be heard!
Jenfidel on April 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM
She hid it so well. I couldn’t even tell it was there. Ha!
jimmy2shoes on April 21, 2009 at 6:54 AM
Political class to middle class: DROP DEAD
angryed on April 21, 2009 at 7:13 AM
Ras got both the 2004 and 2008 election results dead on. But that aside, yea you’re right, he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
angryed on April 21, 2009 at 7:17 AM
That was a very interesting young woman. She is right when she says no President can change your life circumstances. And she is also right when she says a massive layoff needs to hit Washington.
But, I think the secession talk is all the critics will hear.
Of course what they should hear is the sentiment behind the secession talk..but they will dismiss her as an extremist instead.
Terrye on April 21, 2009 at 7:25 AM
strangelet:
Did you notice that the lady did not quote any Texans, instead she chose the founding father Thomas Jefferson. How is this sentiment any different from the millions of Democrats who threatened to leave the country when Bush won a second term?
I think it is just a way to express frustration and anger myself, but I would expect someone like you to ignore everything else the young woman said and pounce on the reference to secession.
Terrye on April 21, 2009 at 7:29 AM
The cell phone argument is a tired one. My wife and I both own cell phones only and we were at a tea party.
BadgerHawk on April 21, 2009 at 7:48 AM
Without providing the rationale that determined the unfavorable opinion, the finding lacks luster.
maverick muse on April 21, 2009 at 8:06 AM
Dumping the land line made the improvement in peaceful and simpler home environment for us, as well. Having the cell phone at all times lends security.
As per the 33%, they simply represent the third of the nation that adores Obama no matter what. They want their free pie in the sky.
America is encumbered with a third of the population stuck on stupid.
maverick muse on April 21, 2009 at 8:11 AM
1) Your belief that old people only use landlines indicates your biases and bigotries.
2) If it is true that the elderly had been undersampled, then 51% is low. The elderly in general are even more upset about the level of spending than the population in general.
MarkTheGreat on April 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM
So in your world, 950million people voted in the last election?
And to think, you have the audacity to question other people’s intelligence.
MarkTheGreat on April 21, 2009 at 8:36 AM
And an easy exit for the productive segment of society. How tough will it be for companies and people to move a couple hundred miles for economic freedom?
Who will you tax when all the wealth moves to Texas?
OBQuiet on April 21, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Those numbers refer to the next election. The one after the ACORN assisted Census and voter registrations.
OBQuiet on April 21, 2009 at 8:55 AM
It’s interesting to watch the Obama administration essentially dismiss the tea parties. Meanwhile, as the poll shows, most people knew the score. They were very non-violent demonstrations.
AnninCA on April 21, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Of course the political elite, whatever that is, has unfavorable views because tea parties threaten their power and control over the government. There was a similar outcry and belittling in California thirty years ago when Prop 13 to reign in taxes was being debated (and ultimately passed). We should also remind ourselves that this is the same political class that thought it would be marvelous to enact a comprehensive shamnesty bill a couple of years ago.
eaglewingz08 on April 21, 2009 at 9:30 AM
It’s official: i ♥ katrina pierson
carbon_footprint on April 21, 2009 at 10:01 AM
nope…..in the last election, 129.5 million people voted for Obama, and 120 million voted for McCain.
9.5 million is the difference.
However, where those people voted was sort of critical…..365 to 173 electoral college blowout.
strangelet on April 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM
IPOF, 51% of the population won’t win a presidential election, because the demographic trend is to urbanization, and urban areas are weighted far more heavily in electoral votes.
Consider GW’s electoral college win by ….what….3 votes? That year he actually lost the popular vote, but narrowly won the electoral college.
The electoral college is where you guys are bleeding.
strangelet on April 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM
And not just bleeding….mortally wounded, IMHO.
strangelet on April 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM
IMO, We need to move some of these tea parties to the front lawns of news print editors’ homes. I think that may be the only way to get their attention. Hey, if they can bus ACORN in to protest on the lawns of AIG execs, no reason we can’t do the same with the media.
The MSM is where we should be directing most of our anger now. They’re our only line of defense against corruption. Once they became the corrupt, it’s up to the people to take their country back.
SoldiersMom on April 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Shes a good speaker.
tx2654 on April 21, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Screw it let’s just divide up the nation. Let the left have the coasts. I’d gladly move out of California if it meant living in a sane nation.
Stickeehands on April 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM
I am tired of all of all 535 members of Congress and our President. The @#$% fools can’t and never will get control of government spending. And, then they think that the solution if for Washington to run our auto companies and tell the banks to whom to make loans. This is what got us into this @#$% mess!
No country taxed itself into prosperity.
SC.Charlie on April 21, 2009 at 1:33 PM
There is hope but I’m still stockpiling for the fight.
darktood on April 21, 2009 at 2:10 PM
I can prove I was there. Does this make me eligible for a social security check?
cadetwithchips2 on April 21, 2009 at 2:22 PM
The next Sarah Palin? Perhaps.
Katrina Pierson seems to be the average Conservative. She is articulate, passionate, outraged over a Govt that wishes to consume and enslave the individual American. Thank God for people like her.
She needs to prepare for the onslaught of pukes that will likely try to destroy her for standing up for her country–the Liberals love attacking their enemies.
Be strong Katrina! We are with you.
darkmetal on April 21, 2009 at 4:45 PM
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