Tea Party less popular than Muslims, Athiests

[Karma]

Survey’s surprising finding: tea party less popular than atheists and Muslims

In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard, and David E. Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame, say they have collected data indicating that the tea party is "less popular than much maligned groups like 'atheists' and 'Muslims.'"

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Oh really? ya don't say? :rolleyes2:

Still, it IS rather interesting that this survey only sampled 3000 ppl & that its purpose wasnt even about the tea party but rather a follow up to another survey dealing w/ issues of religion in America.

One of their more surprising findings, Campbell concedes, (and one drawing national attention) is that the tea party drew a lower approval rating than Muslims and atheists. That put the tea party below 23 other entries--including Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Republicans and Democrats--that the professors included on their survey of "a representative sample of 3,000 Americans."

& then there was this part

By examining which respondents became supporters of the tea party, Campbell and Putnam's survey "casts doubt on the tea party's 'origin story,' " they write in the Times--though, in fairness, it's perhaps difficult to generalize on the movement's origins from a poll sample of 3,000 respondents.

well DUH!? I've BEEN saying that this "movement" was hardly spontaneous or born of some noble, patriotic impulse. It has NO connection or similarity to the "boston tea parties" that occurred just before the "war of independance". The tea part is composed of (primarily) middle aged, uneducated racist bigots

"They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do," they went on.

who are going against their own self interests as they stomp for a facade created by the Koch Brothers, fanned by the murdoch media/propoganda machine (fox news & WSJ). & what is now making it SILLY is this fanatical obsession w/ religious pretense.

In addition to being socially conservative, the study found a close tie between religion and the tea party, whose supporters seek out "deeply religious" elected officials.

Is this 2011 or dawn of a sequel to the inquisition & salem witch trials?

@ any rate- this survey merely highlights what I wish MORE ppl would either realize or admit to already knowing. why are ppl so scared to speak out against these lunatics?