Tea Party Popularity Tumbling: Poll

Mother Jones:

Just 28 percent of Americans hold favorable views of the tea party, an all-time low in the 19 months that CNN/ORC pollsters have gauged Americans' feelings about the movement. At the same time, 53 percent of Americans think poorly of the tea party, an all-time high. According to CNN/ORC, the movement's popularity peaked in the spring of 2010, when 38 percent of Americans said they liked the tea party and only 36 percent said they didn't.

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Comments

[chucksteaks]

08:39 PM on 10/03/2011

again this is dis-information put out by the abomination administration.wait til 2012, and these same people will be out there screaming for food stamps,NOT! welfare,NOT!job,NOT! carry my cigar can liberal white tutu!? all these peole protesting right now are tea-party people. Hello!? don't discard me my friend. i thijnk that was stephan stiles, on two street?? some body korect me!!is palin/bachman/born next? is a woman in the mix for 2012? N-P-R- HAS ALREADY READ OBAMA OBIT ,SO WE DONT WORRY ABOUT HIM AND HIS TARGET BABE.

[nypapajoe]

12:29 PM on 09/30/2011

What's disturbing about the Baggers is that they have no conception of reality! They talk about patriotism as if they are the only ones that have a monopoly on it! They see their world as being White void of others! They are intolerant of other cultures or religious beliefs! Sexual orientation topics is taboo! Their world is Colonial which is OK if other forms of tolerance is OK also! Books or independent thought would be banned in their world! I prefer a democracy where we care for each other and where we collectively serve to protect our community against fascist dogma and intolerance! Where everyone has a voice and is counted!

[Branson Huggins]

10:21 PM on 09/29/2011

It's no suprise that they are falling in the polls. the more they talk, the stupider they make themselves look. Sorry, but if they really think they represent the views of the founding fathers they are wrong, and need to study history.

As one commenter put it, they are nothing but re-branding of the Republican party, and that is it. people are no stupid. They like to say they aren't Republican, but can anyone name a Democratic candidate they have endorsed or one that is in office as a Tea Party member? I cannot.

[Matt Chernesky]

07:44 PM on 09/29/2011

Ohio has gotten a taste of the Tea Party and we've vomited. Blue Ohio 2012! :D

[aaronrossi]

04:01 PM on 09/30/2011

blue ohio? you must be in cbus and not cinci =b

[Matt Chernesky]

10:10 PM on 09/30/2011

I'm from Ashtabula, like an hour east of Cleveland. :P

[Siara]

03:09 PM on 09/29/2011

Proud to say I'm one of the 56% who think they're bi-got ted creeps. This is not the original Tea Party who were concerned about spending. This is an organization that has been distorted by the hard right.

[Siara]

03:11 PM on 09/29/2011

oops... 53% I'm an optimist.

[blueman00009]

03:31 PM on 09/29/2011

Actually, the original tea party was an anti-corporate revolt:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/15-10

The current iteration is merely a rebranding of the republic base, which commenced after the republics got slau.ghtered in 06. Faux noise and the republic establishment started the rebranding effort. Not anti-spending, just anti-tax.

Finally, hopefully people are waking up to the hypocrisy.

[trilingual]

02:40 PM on 09/29/2011

Here in Republican Johnson County, Kansas (suburban Kansas City) the Tea Party got some of its stealth candidates on the commission to review the county charter. They proposed predictable changes that would make it harder for taxes to be raised (local residents have been very inclined to tax themselves for education, libraries and other features that foster a very high quality of life here), make non-partisan county offices partisan, ruin the county's credit rating, etc. Voters turned out in droves at the commission's latest public hearing and they just trashed the Tea Party proposals! Apparently NOBODY supported them! Not one person spoke in favor! When that happens in a county as Republican as this one, it's a sign that the Tea Party has worn out its very short-lived welcome! Let this spread nationwide!

[RockyMissouri]

03:21 PM on 09/29/2011

Great to know! NOW maybe people will work together to make Cantor and McConnell listen to us....for a change.!

[pjburke]

06:35 PM on 09/29/2011

Wow... to borrow a usually very apt phrase: What's the Matter With Kansas?

LOL

Hope they kick the TeaBeggars back under their bridges.

[trilingual]

07:02 PM on 09/29/2011

Kansas is undeniably Republican, but there has always been a strong streak of moderation and populism, too. For the most part Kansans are nice, common-sense Midwesterners who aren't wacko. Unfortunately, they got flim-flammed by the Tea Party in the last election. People were frustrated by the bad economy and the slow pace of recovery and voted Republican in 2010, seduced by the candidates lies that they were "new style conservatives" who just were interested in jobs, jobs, jobs! As soon as they were elected they revealed themselves as the same old social conservatives who worship at the altar of the Golden Calf and couldn't give a damn about jobs. Especially not when they could spend their time trying to persecute immigrants, suppress voters, defund Planned Parenthood, public broadcasting and the state arts commission, etc., etc., etc. There are a lot of voters who feel very angry and betrayed by what the Tea Partiers are actually doing in office, and a lot of them are very vulnerable next year! All we need are some strong moderate Republicans or Democrats to run and the Tea Party will be driven back under the rocks they crawled out from!

[alistairpolitic]

02:13 PM on 09/29/2011

The TeaVangelicals are great for anyone that doesn't agree with them because sooner or later they'll shout down a gay solider, cheer for people being put to death (innocent or not) and lack any understanding of civics. Most people in the middle aren't fans of those sorts of positions.

Only in America.

[haval2]

01:56 PM on 09/29/2011

Hateful domestic terrorists ... tumbling, down the drain we hope. they have wasted and the set the country back enough. go wear the crazy hats and bang the drums of hate and guns out in the wilderness...you are anti American no matter how you dress. You are exactly what the Founding Fathers warned about.

[Melvia Jackson]

09:09 PM on 10/09/2011

Question? Isnt the tea partiers wearing the wrong uniforms? Shouldn't they be wearing Indian headress and breech cloths,since they dressed up like Indians so the British would not know who was hiding behind the war paint?

[haval2]

09:24 PM on 10/09/2011

way too complex for them ... these outfits might just be subsidized for them.

[whatt]

01:55 PM on 09/29/2011

The head line is good news, what is scary is the fact it has taken this long.

[altosax]

01:35 PM on 09/29/2011

Extremism, when exposed, is always an ugly sight.

[idisVA]

01:22 PM on 09/29/2011

As Perry would say Americans are finally Fed Up! with the Tea Party.

[IdahoBlue777]

01:10 PM on 09/29/2011

The TBgrs' craziness is not just costing us money, it is putting lives at risk. Rand Paul is single-handedly blocking legislation that would strengthen safety rules for oil and gas pipelines, a bill that even the pipeline industry and companies in his own state support. A deadly gas pipeline explosion near San Francisco last year - along with other recent gas explosions and oil pipeline spills - has created consensus in Congress, as well as in the industry, that there are gaps in federal safety regulations. All other Democratic and Republican Senators support this bill. http://www.gopusa.com/news/2011/09/27/rand-paul-blocks-pipeline-safety-bill-on-principle/

[KingCashio]

01:08 PM on 09/29/2011

Note to Tea Party:

Your country doesn't want to be "taken back."

We're going forward, and in 2012, we're going forward. With or without you.

[RockyMissouri]

03:39 PM on 09/29/2011

Wonderful.....! I'm there....so is my family...!

[Mollyj]

01:07 PM on 09/29/2011

anybody that favor in protecting the rich from taxes, should get a blindfold infront of a firing squad!

[TheuintheUSofA]

12:58 PM on 09/29/2011

The fact free tea kids are the GOP. Mr Obama's first day in office the GOP We want or Country back. I have never heard any of the tea-talkers being called out by the GOP have you.
They are one in the same.