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Monday, September 30th, 2013

Tea Party Support Dwindles to Near-Record Low

Author:     LYDIA SAAD
Source:     The Gallup Organization
Publication Date:     26-Sep-13
 Link: Tea Party Support Dwindles to Near-Record Low
Stephan:   Those supporting Theocratic Rightist politics, which is not the entire Republican Party, are dwindling in number, just as people are leaving churches. It is becoming clear to all but the meanest intelligence that the policies of the Theocratic Right are a failure. Yet, because of gerrymandering putting the most rabid Rightists together in districts they are going to remain a power. They have eaten out like zombies the body of the Republican Party. How else can one explain how a junior senator from Texas, in office mere months, has become the leading Republican voice. We should also recognize there is the possibility of a Third Party forming as people, unwilling to be Democrats, but driven from the Republican Party coalesce. And all of it is feeding into the American Schism Trend. Click through to see the helpful graphs and charts.

PRINCETON, NJ — As Washington braces for another budget showdown, this time with the threat of defunding the new healthcare law in the mix, the key political force pushing for conservative policies sees diminished popular support. Fewer Americans now describe themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement than did at the height of the movement in 2010, or even at the start of 2012. Today’s 22% support nearly matches the record low found two years ago.

Americans’ tea Party affiliation

In November 2010, days after the Republicans recaptured the majority in the House of Representatives, 32% of Americans pledged support for the Tea Party, or 10 percentage points higher than in the latest survey, conducted Sept. 5-8.

Opponents of the Tea Party now outnumber supporters 27% to 22%, which is similar to their edge in 2012. However this differs from most of Gallup’s earlier measurements, in 2010 and 2011, when supporters and opponents were either equally matched, or Tea Party backers had the slight edge.

Fully half of Americans, 51%, currently say they are neither a supporter nor an opponent of the Tea Party, or they have no opinion about it.

Strong Tea Party Opponents Outnumber Strong Supporters

In addition to their overall advantage in […]

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