[lbo-talk] tea party numbers

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 18:38:38 PDT 2010


On 8/31/2010 8:54 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:


> 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.

That's the number of people who registered their email addresses with local Tea Party websites.

According to Mark Rudd's website, "By 1968...the number of active [SDS] members may have been more than 100,000 though dues-paying national membership was much smaller."

SA



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