Poll Confirms: Tea Party Movement a Greater Threat to Republicans Than to Democrats

But then, Noam Chomsky to the contrary notwithstanding, there's this:

 

 

 

 

Posted by skeetervt1 at 2:00 am
April 20, 2010

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New Demographic Survey Finds Tea Party Movement Is Essentially the GOP’s Voter Base: Affluent, Overwhelmingly White, Predominantly Male, Mostly Middle-Aged and Older, Fiercely Conservative — and, At Only 18 Percent of the Electorate, More Likely to Wreak Havoc in the Spring Republican Primaries Than in the November General Election

Tea Party protesters march through Washington, D.C. last September. Strong anecdotal evidence, based on attendance at its rallies across the country, that the Tea Party movement does not represent a broad demographic cross-section of the American electorate were confirmed last week by a new survey of the movement by The New York Times and CBS News that found that Tea Party supporters are overwhelmingly white, predominantly male, middle-aged and older, fiercely conservative and heavily Republican — essentially the GOP’s electoral base. The survey also found that the Tea Party movement, which comprises less than a fifth of the total nationwide electorate (18 percent), is economically more affluent than the general U.S. population. (Photo: Aaron Wiener/The Washington Independent)
(Posted 5:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 20, 2010)