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Tea Party support falls to near-record low
mystery-ak:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/324771-tea-party-hits-a-low-point-
Tea Party support falls to near-record low
By Rebecca Shabad - 09/26/13 08:11 AM ET
Public support for the Tea Party has fallen to a near-record low, with just 22 percent of people supporting the grassroots conservative movement, according to a new Gallup poll released Thursday.
As Congress tries to avert a government shutdown Oct. 1, and deal with the debt ceiling again, the movement is losing its base, the poll found.
The Tea Party was at its peak in the 2010 midterm elections after Republicans recaptured the majority in the House that November. Gallup says 32 percent of people pledged support for the Tea Party at the time.
Now, about half of people in the U.S. say they neither support nor oppose the movement, or have no opinion about it, the survey indicates.
While Tea Party supporters mostly associate with the Republican Party, their close relationship may be waning, Gallup says.
Fifty-five percent favor the GOP, and 43 percent have an unfavorable view.
In fact, Tea Party supporters may feel just as negatively about the GOP as they do about Democrats. .
Sens. Rand Paul, (R-Ky.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) are some of the most prominent Tea Party members in Congress. The first two are potential GOP contenders for the 2016 presidential race.
Cruz and Lee ignited the ongoing defund ObamaCare fight, convincing GOP House leadership to pursue it in the government spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown.
The House passed the bill with defunding language last week.
From Tuesday into Wednesday afternoon, Cruz, with Lee’s help, attacked President Obama’s healthcare law on the Senate floor for more than 21 hours ahead of a Senate vote to move forward on the House bill.
Many of Cruz’s Republican colleagues have questioned the freshman senator Texas’s political tactics, which may be a sign of their frustration with the Tea Party as a whole.
sinkspur:
When the objective of a movement is "let's just burn it all down," there should be no surprise that 78% of the country wants nothing to do with it.
Cruz won't win a primary with those kinds of numbers, let alone an election.
Lipstick on a Hillary:
I think GOPBR should throw a big celebration when Congress's own approval rating crashes through its current 7% ceiling.
:silly:
DCPatriot:
--- Quote from: sinkspur on September 26, 2013, 02:12:07 pm ---When the objective of a movement is "let's just burn it all down," there should be no surprise that 78% of the country wants nothing to do with it.
Cruz won't win a primary with those kinds of numbers, let alone an election.
--- End quote ---
Guess what?
The supposedly low numbers don't mean a thing to the "tea party"....because THERE AIN'T NO "TEA PARTY"!
Oh.....'they' are out there....but there's no formal organization. Most "Tea Party" members don't even realize they're members.
But they will be there next election day....bet on it.
sinkspur:
--- Quote from: DCPatriot on September 26, 2013, 02:28:49 pm ---Guess what?
The supposedly low numbers don't mean a thing to the "tea party"....because THERE AIN'T NO "TEA PARTY"!
Oh.....'they' are out there....but there's no formal organization. Most "Tea Party" members don't even realize they're members.
But they will be there next election day....bet on it.
--- End quote ---
No they won't. It's the tea party that elected Obama by staying home on election day in 2012. They'll do it again in 2014 and think they're doing something "noble" and "principled" when all they're doing is shooting themselves.
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