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bobbyw24
12-07-2009, 11:19 AM
By: Andy Barr
December 7, 2009 11:29 AM EST

Should the “Tea Party” movement organize itself to run congressional candidates across the country, it would poll better than the Republican Party, according to a new survey by Rasmussen Reports.

In the national telephone poll of 1,000 likely voters released Monday, 23 percent said they preferred to vote for a candidate from the yet unformed “Tea Party” for Congress in 2010. The Republican Party trailed the non-existent political organization by 5 percentage points, getting the support of 18 percent of respondents.

Democratic candidates were preferred of 36 percent.

Local tea party organizations have sprung up in states across the country, but there is little national – or even state-level – cohesion among them. Most states have several groups competing for support.

Despite the disorganization, the tea party brand is strong enough that a number of conservative candidates, including Republican California Senate hopeful Chuck DeVore, have tried to adopt the movement’s message.

http://floridateaparty.us/assets/images/logo.png

According to the poll, 41 percent of all respondents said they had a “favorable view” of the so-called “Tea Party,” while only 22 percent characterized their view of the grassroots anti-tax movement as “unfavorable.” Thirty-seven percent said they were unsure.

Seventy percent of Republicans said they had a favorable view.

Fifty-seven percent said they were following news about the new movement either “very” or “somewhat” closely, while 40 percent said they were watching “not very closely” or “not at all.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30298.html

Diana
12-07-2009, 11:39 AM
Ripe for unscrupulous opportunists. . . so, it'd be wise to get some scrupulous opportunists in place to prevent that, and use to their advantage instead :D

TCE
12-07-2009, 11:44 AM
I've said it before and I'll say it again:

2010 will be a Republican swing year, that much is agreed. So, what we need to do is place as many of our "R" candidates on the ballot as possible, especially at the State level. If we do that, we should have a very successful November. If that party is the Tea Party party, then so much the better.

Diana
12-07-2009, 11:48 AM
I've said it before and I'll say it again:

2010 will be a Republican swing year, that much is agreed. So, what we need to do is place as many of our "R" candidates on the ballot as possible, especially at the State level. If we do that, we should have a very successful November. If that party is the Tea Party party, then so much the better.

Less than a year to get that done. We'll all have to work hard locally to accomplish it.

pennycat
12-08-2009, 02:19 PM
Here in Florida we do indeed have an official 'TEA' party that is registered with the Florida Division of Elections http://www.floridateaparty.us/ Anyone interested in running for office under that name is urged to contact the chairman through the website.

Dianne
12-08-2009, 02:34 PM
A "tea party" candidate would have a much better shot than a libertarian candidate. Fortunately the movement has gotten a lot of powerful coverage; so much so, that the GOP is trying to steal the movement from us and make it their own.

The average joe is shouting "hell yeah" when he sees a tea party march on television.

tangent4ronpaul
12-08-2009, 02:47 PM
If tea parties pop up across the country the country it's going to split the Repub abd Independent vote and we will be truely screwed :(

-t