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Tea Party favorability weaker among people who don’t hang up on robocalls on their landlines.
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I am confused. Was this ALL voters or just Republicans? If it’s all voters, then Michelle Nunn has NO chance in Georgia. If it’s Republicans, then she has a good chance. I suspect this was a survey of Republicans, but from the story I can’t be certain.
Yeah, nobody likes to talk about this, but polls were actually skewed toward Republicans in 2012 once the final results came in. An extra blow to the intellectually handicapped teatards.
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Wow, VA really hates the Tea Party!
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Those teabagger loving counties in eastern Colorado are just about the most shitbag, desolate pissant fuckholes you’ll ever encounter.
It’s no wonder the teabaggers are popular there; you’d have to be a resentful stupid fuck to take up residence in such a barren wasted place.
It’s also interesting that the most teabagger-loving parts of America are by and large populated by rural white trash dependent upon government aid of one kind or another.
Parasites.
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Alright, 22% in my county!
Anyone beat that?
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Must be the same map that Karl Rove used when he announced Mitt Romney would when the Presidential election.
Interesting to see how many rural counties in the South voted for Obama! Need more, but gives me some hope…
Problem is, the Tea Party is now the Republican Party. So “Tea Party favorability” is really just symbolic.
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The, we hate Obama just because but need a phony cover story, party, AKA the teabaggers aren’t all that they are made out to be. No shit says I.
There are pockets of these knuckleheads spread around the country and if I cared enough I’d do the math. I’m willing to bet that they are somewhere near the guaranteed close to 25% crazy, Bircher/Bagger number. Sadly, no matter what they are known as presently, they will always exist. Hateful obstruction is a percentage of the new norm, they will morph into whatever it takes to do the 1% bidding once teabagging has lost it’s appeal but the nuts will remain.
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Hawaii is shown at 23-25%, but since it exceeds Romney’s vote in three of the four counties by 2-3%, I suspect it’s modelled rather than surveyed and is actually considerably lower.
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39 percent of total respondents in the survey had a somewhat or strongly favorable opinion of the tea party.
• 61 percent had a neutral, somewhat unfavorable, or strongly unfavorable opinion of the tea party.
Not to pick nits, but throwing the neutral into the unfavorable side is a bit naughty.
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The rise of the Tea Baggers was essentially a corporate rebranding of the Republican base after Bush’s favorability finally tanked, along with the economy. The oligarchy dodged a bullet – for a little while there was actually a very small but non-zero possibility that they might actually have been held responsible for their crimes, if they hadn’t so adroitly deflected most of the anger.
Of course, there’s a long history of this sort of manipulation of the populace, it’s just the details that change.
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OK, from what I can glean from the “Here’s how HaystaqDNA compiled the data…” paragraph, it’s all voters. But to a large degree they are virtual voters, not real flesh and blood voters: it’s based on how some computer model predicted that voters in, say, Burke County, Georgia would respond based on surveying (real) folks in Iowa and Missisippi and California and a few other other states, matching their responses up with demographic info (census, voting patterns, and such) and using that to predict how much support the Tea Party has with voters in Burke County, GA.
They did do some validation, and apparently are satisfied that their model was able to predict accurately how real people would respond if they were to be surveyed county by county across the US.
Still, the actual specifics of this survey aren’t terribly clear from this article. I’d take any predictions with a grain of salt.
We are told, however, that 100% (39 + 61) of respondents had an opinion - favorable, unfavorable, or neutral - about the Tea Party. Illuminating.
It’s like one of those logic puzzles. If 39 percent of respondents are strongly or somewhat favorable, and, of those who feel strongly one way or another, 60 percent are unfavorable, how many are persons in Fergus County, Montana don’t give a shit one way or another about the Tea Party ?
Well, it’s more like “computer-modeled VA hates the Tea party!” - not one person from Virginia was actually surveyed, despite the county-by county results displayed in the interactive map.
Why were those who were neutral about the tea party included in the group that had a negative opinion of the tea party. What percentage of the total were neutral?
22.1% in Dane Co WI!! Woo hoo!
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10% in San Francisco
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