Chip Berlet wrote:
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> >>>Just over a quarter of Ameriacns support the Tea Party movement, according to a new Gallup poll. <http://www.gallup.com/poll/127181/Tea-Partiers-Fairly-Mainstream-Demographics.aspx>
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> >>>Twenty-eight percent of respondents identify with the Tea Party, compared to 26% who oppose it, and 38% who are neutral.
I'm not sure the polls are meaningful in this case. Two or three people in our local anti-war group are attracted to Ron Paul & sympathetic to the TPs without really knowing much about either. A few of us had an e-mail discussion of "what to do" about this a week or so ago, and decided to 'let it alone." I think the Teaparty is a sort of blank slate on which many write their own opinions (as I said I have often done with Yeats.
Carrol