Teabaggers Out Of Touch, New Study Finds

Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and strategist James Carville have set their sights on the Republican base, exploring the conspiracy theories fueling conservatives. Their public opinion firm Democracy Corps will release a report Friday concluding that these voters are "not just critical of President Obama, but worried he is deliberately trying to deceive the American public in order to advance a secret socialist agenda." The report also found that these constituents share few views with swing voters.

From the press release:

Washington, DC. October 15, 2009. On Friday afternoon, Democracy Corps will be releasing a controversial, comprehensive report on focus groups conducted last month among conservative Republican base voters in suburban Atlanta, with parallel groups conducted among blue collar independents in suburban Cleveland. Prior to the release--at 11:00am EST this Friday, October 16--Democracy Corps' co-founders James Carville and Stan Greenberg will host a special conference call with interested media to preview the findings.

The report is based on results of two sets of focus groups held September 29-30, 2009 by Democracy Corps, along with survey data collected over the last four months. The first set of groups were held in suburban Atlanta, GA among older white, self-identified conservative Republican base voters--those that voted for both John McCain and a GOP candidate for Congress. A parallel set of groups was conducted in Cleveland, OH among older white, non-college swing voters--half of whom voted for Barack Obama and half of whom voted for John McCain last November.

The study explored the relevance of the 'race issue' among these voters and revealed they're not just critical of President Obama, but worried he is deliberately trying to deceive the American public in order to advance a secret socialist agenda. The study also explored a variety of recently media-covered including TEA parties, as well as surprising findings about how the conservative Republican base views their own party officials, the Republican Party, and conservative media pundits like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. These voters have a strong self-identity, are critical of the Republican Party, and share few views with the 'Macomb-County-like' swing voters in the middle.

Opinion polls have found that on health care in particular, the tea party movement does not represent the views of most Americans.

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[yourmonscalling]

YUP AND DID YOU KNOW THAT THE STUDY WAS DONE BY GOLDMAN SACHS

[sarabono]

Why do you need a study ? To make the skewed results more official ?

[ramsfan]

please continue to use terms like "teabaggers" in your headlines. For those who might visit here with common sense, it quickly rules out the slim chance they might have had in their mind that this site is a credible news source. Also, why wouldnt they believe he is trying to trick them? Has has been blocked from doing anything by his own party, are we to believe if he had full dem support we wouldnt have a single payer option? The real change begins tomorrow in NJ and VA...

[batmancw]

I was about to make the exact same point. While there are certainly some ignorant folks involved with the Tea Party movement, the fact that HP, the WH and other so-called "responsible" sources continue to refer to the movement as "teabaggers" indicates that they suffer from the same credibility problems that they claim FOX News does.

[batmancw]

And I forgot to ask...do those of you who enjoy taking shots at the Tea Party movement REALLY feel that your best interests are being represented by your elected officials?
EVERY DAY we see yet another story right here on HP proving that our government has been bought at the highest levels by the Banksters, Wall Street, the Military industrial Complex & other special interests. No, it's not a NEW issue, but at least this movement was FINALLY formed to protest it. So, when Bush was engaging in his reign of stupidity what were YOU doing? I was calling my Reps and the WH weekly, for all the good it did, but at least I did something.

[ProudMilVet]

Actually, i'm a Marxist / Lennonist of the Groucho & John kind !

[ProudMilVet]

I served 21 years in the Military. 10 years active duty Navy & 11 years Army Reserve. I retired as a Captain in the Army Nurse Corps in 2002 . I served in Vietnam as a Hospital Corpman, 1969-1970 & as an Army Nurse in Desert Storm. Guess What ? I think this country needs Socialized Medicine. With that said, i guess according to the way the Teabaggers think, even with my Military service that makes me a Traitor, a Socialist, a Marxist & a Communist. At the same time they will support & consider non-Military serving people like Glenn Beck & Dick Armey as True Patriots because they oppose President Obama on every issue. I guess Wrong is Right & Right is Wrong .

[jdunaway65]

Maybe the headline should read "Teabaggers Touched (in the Head), Study Finds"

[betty22]

I turned to teaparty when they stabbed Hillary during the election. hillary should have won.

[Andrew Shapter]

....but didn't. Time to accept reality.

[BoVandy]

It's not everyone who can pinpoint the moment they lost their minds. Kudos to you

[Minnehaha]

I'm old enough to remember people calling Martin Luther King a communist and swearing the civil rights movement was orchestrated by the Big Red Communist Machine. Now that same generation with a few exceptions are out there carrying signs that swear Obama is a socialist. I bet if you ask some of them if they still believe the Communist were behind the civil rights movement, they would answer in the affirmative. These right wing extremist remind me of the same folks that stood in door ways yelling threatening racial slurs at children trying to enter a school, or get a drink from a fountain, or use a bath room. They are the folks that did not mind the south being integrated, but protested and rioted when it came to their neighborhoods in the north. I don't believe they are so frightened of change as they are obstructionist to change. The truly frightening idea is that they have passed their thinking on to the next generation. I wonder how many of them really understand how poor health care is in this country compared to rest of the world. And that health care is prioritized according to who you are and how rich you are already.

[SimianNation]

The World Health Organization's ranking
of the world's health systems.

The U. S. health system spends a higher portion of its gross domestic product than any other country but ranks 37 out of 191 countries according to its performance, the report finds. The United Kingdom, which spends just six percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on health services, ranks 18th . Several small countries – San Marino, Andorra, Malta and Singapore are rated close behind second- placed Italy.

http://www.photius.com/rankings/who_world_health_ranks.html

Rank Country

1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
41 New Zealand
42 Bahrain
43 Croatia
44 Qatar
45 Kuwait
46 Barbados
47 Thailand
48 Czech Republic
49 Malaysia
50 Poland
51 Dominican Republic
52 Tunisia
53 Jamaica
54 Venezuela
55 Albania
56 Seychelles
57 Paraguay
58 South Korea
59 Senegal
60 Philippines
61 Mexico
62 Slovakia
63 Egypt
64 Kazakhstan
65 Uruguay
66 Hungary
67 Trinidad and Tobago
68 Saint Lucia
69 Belize
70 Turkey

[Ifticar2]

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Bill,

Tell me FACTUALLY what you do not like about Mao Tse Tung. Seriously and don't simply say he was a head of China so bec. they have a communist economy they are BAAAD ...

Tell me EXACTLY with FACTS what was so bad about Mao?

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Let's start with the fact the he executed 70 million of his countrymen, women and children. If that is OK with you then I feel very sorry for you.

[neocon666]

Moon not made of swiss cheese, study finds.
-It's a joke trolls, don't bother asking for links to proof.

[ReedYoung]

LieutenantAmbiguous
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/teabaggers-targeted-by-ca_n_322451.html?show_comment_id=32949926#comment_32949926
"If there is no competition, why isn't the proposed solution to roll back some of the regulations that create uncompetitive conditions?"

That is already under way.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/15/124035/48

Why didn't a Republican President think of it?

[ReedYoung]

"I don't believe in making fun of anyone myself."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/teabaggers-targeted-by-ca_n_322451.html?show_comment_id=32947623#comment_32947623

You won't mind if we all hold you to that.

[LieutenantAmbiguous]

Why don't you research the meaning of the word 'believe' or 'belief.'

[ReedYoung]

Why don't you pay me to do your research for you?

[Prakosh]

Time for appropriate commentary from an artist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHywdqH3F6Y

[ReedYoung]

Very appropriate!

[Prakosh]

"Study Fnds TeaBaggers More Than Slighty Twisted!"

I wish I could get some money for a study like this.

I could have written this study without any original research at all! All I would have had to do was check the public record.