Newest Tea Party Study: Very Small/Doing "Surprisingly Little."

[AlphaCrab]

This is interesting....Seems like the hot air and anti-intellectualism rhetoric of the so called Tea Party has no real network of strength at all.

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A DISPARATE BAND OF VAGUELY CONNECTED GATHERINGS'
Months-Long Survey Finds The Tea Party Is Small, Doing 'Surprisingly Little'.......

".... a new Washington Post canvass of hundreds of local tea party groups reveals a different sort of organization, one that is not so much a movement as a disparate band of vaguely connected gatherings that do surprisingly little to engage in the political process.
The results come from a months-long effort by The Post to contact every tea party group in the nation, an unprecedented attempt to understand the network of individuals and organizations at the heart of the nascent movement".

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washingtonpost.com

 

[GoodWitch58]

This is interesting....Seems like the hot air and anti-intellectualism rhetoric of the so called Tea Party has no real network of strength at all.

(read on)

A DISPARATE BAND OF VAGUELY CONNECTED GATHERINGS'
Months-Long Survey Finds The Tea Party Is Small, Doing 'Surprisingly Little'.......

".... a new Washington Post canvass of hundreds of local tea party groups reveals a different sort of organization, one that is not so much a movement as a disparate band of vaguely connected gatherings that do surprisingly little to engage in the political process.
The results come from a months-long effort by The Post to contact every tea party group in the nation, an unprecedented attempt to understand the network of individuals and organizations at the heart of the nascent movement".

(read on)

washingtonpost.com

Interesting...from the article: "One question remains: If most tea party groups don't engage in political campaigning, what exactly do they do?"

that's what I would like to know as well.

It seems to me that some of the energy of the local groups (not local as in Sowal, but local as in not part of the national Freedom Works, etc.) may have been co-opted by the special interests groups similarly to how the Southern Strategy worked for the Republican Party after the Civil Rights Act; and the Bush 2004 strategy worked with the religious right.

Same strategy looking for the same results. What amazes me is that regular people continue to fall for it.



Chan Lowe: Buying the midterm election


http://blogs.trb.com/news/opinion/chanlowe/blog/2010/10/chan_lowe_buying_the_midterm_e.html

 

[AndrewG]

The tea party doesn't really have any influence. It's all a big scam.