[lbo-talk] Demographic composition of the Tea Party

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 13:53:45 PDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Chip Berlet <c.berlet at publiceye.org> wrote:

They started as astroturf, but they turned into a real mass movement. Even
> skeptical looks at recent polling shows it has traction among millions of
> people.
>

Yeah, but what does sympathy, as expressed in polls, actually mean? By the same logic, I could claim the existence of an even larger mass movement against the Afghanistan war.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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