[lbo-talk] tea party numbers

[Chip Berlet]

This figure is about 25% of the other counts.  Bad data.  Bad analysis.

 
But what matters is how the roughly 270,000 are being mobilized into a get out the vote campaign for Republicans.

 
Check out he Gallup poll on falling Dem ratings. Check out the % of Americans who think Tea Party people know more about public policy than their elected officials. Check out the Christian Right scheduling multiple events nationwide before November.

 
Then keep up the fantasy that it is all astroturf.

 
Surf the apocalypse!

 
-Chip

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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Dennis Claxton
Sent: Tue 8/31/2010 8:54 PM
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Subject: [lbo-talk] tea party numbers

I was just looking for estimates of how many tea partyers there are
and found this at Patchwork Nation:

http://patchworknation.csmonitor.com/csmstaff/2010/0421/tea-party-how-big-is-it-and-where-is-it-based/

Even if the 67,000 or so members we have identified overall
understates the number of tea party members by a factor of 10, the
number would still be fairly small in relation to the electorate as a whole.

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