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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The fact that 13% of the political elite held such a low opinion speaks volumes. 13% these people are pathetic all of them.
rob verdi on April 20, 2009 at 8:00 PM
One more reason to separate from the elite…
DwnSouthJukin on April 20, 2009 at 8:03 PM
How many more would if the media had framed their reporting honestly, i.e. that it’s not all about Obama?
OneGyT on April 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Crap! I guess the Alaskan air is making me look like a prune. Wait a freaking Sec…. it isn’t humid up here!
Carville.. take your little alien self and throw yourself down a mountain!
upinak on April 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM
The political elite are so out of touch, IMO.
deidre on April 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM
51% of us recognize a good idea. Ahhhh, that’s why the MSM hates the idea of lower taxes and spending.
perroviejo on April 20, 2009 at 8:05 PM
What is so great about Sarah Palin not being active in the past 4 months is that she been able to sit back while disengaged and see the universe unfold around Obama and develop a strategy how to best take advantage of the antagonism directed towards him. The tea parties are another voice which I believe she can plug into.
51% of people back the tea parties. That’s a good place for any potential GOP Presidential contender to begin her campaign.
technopeasant on April 20, 2009 at 8:05 PM
So what you’re saying is that 51% of the U.S. population is aged, senile, unpatriotic, bitter, stupid, insane and unfriendly to CNN reporters?
Isn’t this about the same percentage of people who voted for Obowa? What gives?
Bishop on April 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM
And yet we continue to re-elect them and let them run the media. We’re going to need a bigger crowd to stop this destruction.
genso on April 20, 2009 at 8:07 PM
This has to scare them more than anything…
Patrick S on April 20, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Heh. Sarah Palin actually mentioned the tea parties in her speech that she gave for the right-to-life event.
deidre on April 20, 2009 at 8:09 PM
I think I’m in love…
Theworldisnotenough on April 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM
I got an e-mail saying the million dollar march on Washington is September 12, 2009. I still do not believe they would listen though, however.
deidre on April 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM
they get better looking every time.
blatantblue on April 20, 2009 at 8:12 PM
51% is all we need to win an election! It’s the political elitists who need to get booted out of office. It’s those same political elitists who are ruining this great country.
http://www.teapartynation.com
tnmama on April 20, 2009 at 8:12 PM
If we can get a million people to go along with that million dollars, maybe. A million dollars isn’t much in DC…apparently.
genso on April 20, 2009 at 8:15 PM
That is why the MSM has to trash them. It points out their incompetent reporting.
thomasaur on April 20, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Tea parties rock.
Mojave Mark on April 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Dear Congress,
Start packing. Your pink slip is in the mail.
The People
TN Mom on April 20, 2009 at 8:19 PM
As the fine young lady said, the ‘political elite’ need to hit the unemployment lines first. BTW, I have a feeling ‘political elite’ is about as popular a job title as ‘assistant crack whore’.
AUINSC on April 20, 2009 at 8:19 PM
She was sexy. Good speech and from the heart. Groom her for political office.
Daemonocracy on April 20, 2009 at 8:20 PM
She’s pretty..Who is she?
therightwinger on April 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM
she is HOT!
homesickamerican on April 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM
I would go if I had the money to fly there.
If a million people gave a dollar, we could have enough money to fly people that cannot afford it to Washington DC for the event. Hey, I’d give 50 bucks for a plane ticket to Washington for the event!
deidre on April 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM
49% highly influenced by MSM
jp on April 20, 2009 at 8:24 PM
If she’s a racist where do I sign up to get my pointy hat?
- The Cat
P.S. I guarantee you we will see more of her.
MirCat on April 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM
She was really good.
TimTebowSavesAmerica on April 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM
If 90% of minorities voted for Obama, where in the hell are we supposed to get the people from? My mom, brother, and I were at the DC party and there were some none-white people there. Admittedly few, I admit. Also, I think there are a lot of fair-weather protestors. At one point they announced there was between 2 and 3 thousand people there. Temperatures were hovering around 40 and it was pouring rain.
TXMomof3 on April 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM
I have trouble typing legibly and dealing with the kids nighttime rituals.
TXMomof3 on April 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM
The disconnect between regular Americans and the political “elite” is jarring….but it explains a lot.
cruadin on April 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM
This is how Rasmussen defines Political Class:
Rasmussen’s definition of Political Class is found in this March post:
55% of Americans Are Populist, 7% Support the Political Class
Here are the 3 questions and how they calculate the index:
The questions used to calculate the Index are:
INC on April 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Ah, gop poll.
No thanks.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 8:31 PM
The thing about lefties is that they hate minorities who aren’t Democrats worse than they hate any white guy.
Speedwagon82 on April 20, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Don’t let up, the seed has been planted and has begun to grow. By July an even greater percentage will support this grass roots movement. Much of the political elite are politicians and as the vice tightens they will see the light and support the movement.
rplat on April 20, 2009 at 8:32 PM
I saw her live! It was a great story!
jeffn21 on April 20, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Also in the RR on the Tea Parties is this gem:
They also said:
So the Political Class are comprised of people who don’t know what they’re talking about, and who have bought into the media hype and only 1% of them had personal contact re a tea party.
INC on April 20, 2009 at 8:33 PM
So 1% of the 7% of the public who comprise this Political Class had any contact with reality about the Tea Parties!
INC on April 20, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Hey, I stood in the rain and cold on Tax Day and will go to one on the 4th as well. Not DC, too expensive. I think we will brave the heat and humidity in San Antonio.
TXMomof3 on April 20, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Well you know that Peasant Mentality sometimes they get it right.
http://dai-strategicconservativealliance.blogspot.com/2009/04/bill-booner-from-daily-reckoning-13.html
Dr Evil on April 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM
People who are screaming for seceeding look as much like crying sore losers as the Hollywood types who screamed they are moving to Canada when W. won. Why can’t people just accept the President and move on with their lives, on both sides of the aisle?
dcwvu on April 20, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Obamuhhh should hear her
speakroar… Clear, concise, and to the point. Awesome!RalphyBoy on April 20, 2009 at 8:44 PM
First, there’s a distinct difference between running away and standing fast. Second, if you must ask that question then you wouldn’t understand the answer.
rplat on April 20, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Thanks for posting Katrina Pierson! She is awesome.
She is from Forney, TX; home of the Forney Jackrabbits.
Notice her heavy use of the teleprompter?
carbon_footprint on April 20, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Perhaps if you protested w’s record breaking spending, you would have a point.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 8:49 PM
“We will not be bullied into socialism.”
What she said.
baldilocks on April 20, 2009 at 8:52 PM
We did…you must have been asleep those 4 years.
AUINSC on April 20, 2009 at 8:52 PM
I have no respect for people who protest Obama’s spending like a bunch of banchees, but stood by idly for 8 years while W. spent us into a recession. This is nothing but faux, selective outrage from conservatives trying to hurt a Democratic president.
dcwvu on April 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM
He didn’t spend us into recession…his budgets were nothing compared to this (and the congressional Democrats alway proposed higher spending)…read a little bit before you post and are mocked for your obvious ignorance. As for faux, selective outrage…prove it.
AUINSC on April 20, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Puts Duh-1 to shame don’t she?
R D on April 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM
At the San Antonio party, there was a very good speaker, a woman who legally immigrated here from Colombia. She’s like some immigrants I’ve met, who actually know more about what makes America work than 50%+ of the people who were born here.
juliesa on April 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM
BS, there were no tea parties.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Seriously, Dallas is only four hours from me. I think I have met my Tea Party mate!
youngO on April 20, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Its medications does not allow it to post coherent thought. It will go away. It apparently did not take my advice on taking the LD50 dosage. I’m disappointed.
daesleeper on April 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Oh really? I assure you this recession didn’t start at noon on January 20. We had been heading there for over a year. Bush’s economic policies were a disaster — but nevermind getting facts in the way. The recession is only because of Obama. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
dcwvu on April 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
You voted for the same gop who spent record trillions.
Give it a rest sore losers.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
These trolls must be getting paid quite well to monitor this site 24/7.
R D on April 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Genius, it’s called funding two wars and a recession due to the DotCom bubble burst and 9/11.
Oh, and then there that little thing that the president does not spend any money unless congress approves it. Note the spending/economy falling right around January 2007.
Interesting, that is when the Democrats took control of congress.
By the way, quadrupling the deficit and then cutting it in half does not make President Obama a financial genius; it’s kind of like saving those 3-1/2 million jobs. No way to do it and no way to prove it.
carbon_footprint on April 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Note the spending rising/economy falling right around January 2007.
carbon_footprint on April 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM
I doubt if the average person knows what teabagging means. Maybe, somebody should tell them how disgusting it is.
Blake on April 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Yeah, you notice a nice correlation to the DJIA dropping around the same time that it looked as if Obama would become the Democrat frontrunner. The market looks forward and saw that Obama might actually have a chance of winning.
carbon_footprint on April 20, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Protest != Tea-party…conservatives were outraged at his Democrat-lite budges…Your Messiah just multiplied them by an order of magnitude…it’s a total game changer and everyone knows it (excluding you)…so go back to sleep.
AUINSC on April 20, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Dang she’s married
youngO on April 20, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Hahaha, she didn’t even have a telepromter. The One couldn’t even do that!!!!!!
deidre on April 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Yeah, well, which policies were those that caused the meltdown again? Remember something called CRA? That thing that forced banks give people with bad credit scores house loans that couldn’t afford them. Put in place by your buddies Carter, Clinton and Dodd and Frank?
AUINSC on April 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Our women are all beauties. I think it may have to do with being happy makes you pretty, and happy people don’t hate America.
Ted Torgerson on April 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I think we need another tea party real soon to let these people know we mean business. Maybe before the 4th of July.
mindhacker on April 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM
The slavemasters hate the runaways.
baldilocks on April 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Precisely!!!
thomasaur on April 20, 2009 at 9:26 PM
You forgot racist!
Who are these political elite in the poll? How is that defined?
Alana on April 20, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Sorry, I meant “political class.” How does Rasmussen define that?
And here’s the best part:
“One-in-four adults (25%) say they personally know someone who attended a tea party protest. That figure includes just one percent (1%) of those in the Political Class.”
That is, simply put, phenomenal.
Alana on April 20, 2009 at 9:33 PM
How does the media get away with stereotyping conservatives?
I remember their treatment of justice Janice Brown.
Saltysam on April 20, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Oops – sorry, I didn’t read on. Thank you for explaining the definition.
Alana on April 20, 2009 at 9:36 PM
The GETALIEs and the WVUs are fearful
Jamson64 on April 20, 2009 at 9:37 PM
so trolls you like this spending under Obama? do you really? you think it is good for america and its future generations?
Jamson64 on April 20, 2009 at 9:38 PM
In case this wasn’t already said…
DAMN, she’s a hotty!!!!
DethMetalCookieMonst on April 20, 2009 at 9:39 PM
I exchanged a couple of emails with Eric Baerren, author of a headlines article, earlier today. He couldn’t get past the whole tea party thing, thereby justifying the lofty Left’s endless gutter hovering and double entendre.
Cindy Munford on April 20, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Oh really? I assure you this recession didn’t start at noon on January 20. We had been heading there for over a year. Bush’s economic policies were a disaster — but nevermind getting facts in the way. The recession is only because of Obama. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
dcwvu on April 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Let me ask you a couple of questions (and they can apply to all those who say the kinds of things you do):
1. Are you aware that the amounts spent since the first bail-out dwarf anything that came before?
2. Do you think that if spending too much money was bad under Bush, then spending three times as much is good under Obama?
Alana on April 20, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Damn the comments by the politicos – Listen to this woman, she has earned it.
God Bless you Katrina, keep on talking.
The moving van is heading toward Texas!
InTheBellyoftheBeast on April 20, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Let me answer for them:
1) Yes, but today’s Axelrod talking points didn’t mention that.
2) See 1.
AUINSC on April 20, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Something tells me you didn’t say that to your fellow lefties the past 8 years.
DethMetalCookieMonst on April 20, 2009 at 9:50 PM
If 90% of minorities voted for Obama, where in the hell are we supposed to get the people from? My mom, brother, and I were at the DC party and there were some none-white people there. Admittedly few, I admit. Also, I think there are a lot of fair-weather protestors. At one point they announced there was between 2 and 3 thousand people there. Temperatures were hovering around 40 and it was pouring rain.
TXMomof3 on April 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Don’t worry TX, I was one of a thousand in near by Annapolis, a thousand in the driving rain should speak loudly, we will be there in the thousands in DC come July 4th.
M-14 2go on April 20, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Saw this over the weekend thanks to carbon_footprint. It’s a great example of someone who rejected the handout and through real effort, made herself prosperous. And now they want to take it away from her! We need to keep this Tea Party movement going until they know we aren’t going away! July 4 in DC? I believe we can make it the strongest showing ever.
Christian Conservative on April 20, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Few here agreed with runaway spending, new government programs and TARP under Pres. Bush’s administration. Pres. Obama has taken it to a whole new level with his plans to rescue failing businesses (Let Them Fail), rewriting contracts for mortgage holders in foreclosure. And for his next trick, free college tuition and health care. None of these things are in the Constitution. When the federal government finds a new way to generate income other than picking my pocket and the pockets of my progeny I will keep quiet but until then stuff it.
Cindy Munford on April 20, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Coming from someone who hates the troops and who also recently posted as “fact” a “poll” that over-sampled Democrats by 19 percent, that’s pretty hallucinatory.
Del Dolemonte on April 20, 2009 at 9:55 PM
He only doubled the federal deficit. Where was Rush on that?
I stopped watching the video as soon as she advocated succession, what an idiot.
V15J on April 20, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Give it a rest sore losers.
getalife on April 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Sore loser? Not at all, the people spoke, that does not mean I don’t have a voice, you need not like my voice, but I have one, and you will take it away over my dead body.
M-14 2go on April 20, 2009 at 10:01 PM
meh.
33% VERY favorable == republicans and befuddled juggalos. totally partisan.
17% somewhat favorable.
One black chick out of 300,000+ ?
That is best you can do?
Loozers.
no cell phone sampling either, so OLD people were oversampled.
strangelet on April 20, 2009 at 10:06 PM
But the problem is the double-standard; tea parties aren’t allowed to be about Conservatives/GOP and can’t be backed by anyone with deep pockets. As soon as a high roller like Sarah Palin speaks at one of these, they will be painted as little more than campaign vehicles for the GOP, attacked and thoroughly discredit by the MSM.
Of course, I’m thinking, “so what if they are?” Every major protest movement from Vietnam on up have been organized by Leftist groups…the others by unions.
Why can’t we have a George Soros financier, major networks/newspapers, Hollywood actors, and government officials backing us for a change?
On second thought, perhaps we’re better off without them. ‘=)
Dr. ZhivBlago on April 20, 2009 at 10:06 PM
That last white supremacist to her left has a really good tan.
Jerricho68 on April 20, 2009 at 10:08 PM
We had a woman in Sacramento who waited 45 years to legally come here from France. She loved her home country but didn’t like the direction it was going–to socialism–and so started her quest to come here. Now she sees what happened in France happening here, and was there speaking against it last Wednesday.
Bob's Kid on April 20, 2009 at 10:08 PM
That chick was hot… BTW, Allah, you whine about Thomas Paine saying inflammatory things…. Why no whining about this chick saying “welcome to what could be the next revolution”?
RightWinged on April 20, 2009 at 10:12 PM
33% VERY unfavorable.
16% somewhat unfavorable.
+/- 3 % standard Rasmussen poll error……it is a wash.
I think….if you add in the cellphone vote, the favorability/unfavorabilty break is going to shake out just like that last election, Obama by 1 %. sad for you that 1% is 9.5 million votes.
That didn’t work out so well for you in 2008 did it?
;)
strangelet on April 20, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Right, because you personally sampled them and know there was only one ‘black chick’ there…sure, good point as usual.
AUINSC on April 20, 2009 at 10:14 PM
I’m reminded in listening to her wonderful “speech”.
SHE believes in what she says, that’s why it comes so easy compared to our TOTUS. “We will not be bullyed into socialism”
Common sense just wins out again!! Well done Texas!! :-)
HarryStar on April 20, 2009 at 10:15 PM
I kept waiting for her to pump her fist and scream white power, but it never happened.
Jerricho68 on April 20, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Oh really? I assure you this recession didn’t start at noon on January 20. We had been heading there for over a year. Bush’s economic policies were a disaster — but nevermind getting facts in the way. The recession is only because of Obama. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
dcwvu on April 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Actually this mess started many moons ago, when FDR implemented many public programs, and charged the tax payer for them. Social Security for starters. It got a recharge via Carter, and another push, when Clinton was in office. This entire melt down started with the housing fiasco, via the Frannie, and Freddie chumps. 2006 is when this current economic melt down started. Now what happened that year? Oh yes! The democrats took control.
Both parties get the blame, but this economic downturn didn’t start with Bush. Do some research, and you will find, this started…..many moons ago, and is now going to continue, at least thru 2010.
capejasmine on April 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM
..And just what constitutes the ‘political class’? ‘political elite’?
I didn’t see anywhere in that report just what their definition of such a ‘polling group’ actually is..
Reaps on April 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM
I love cerebral women that can break it down for me.
Saltysam on April 20, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Oh Im sure there more….just not in pictures in front of mics.
The poll sample mirrors the same breakdown that we saw in november.
1% of the black vote goes to the GOP.
Big whup.
strangelet on April 20, 2009 at 10:25 PM
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