> It's worth noting these were not the words of activists dressed in colonial
> garb on their way to a Capitol Hill protest. All these participants did was
> get paid to attend a focus group in or around their home towns.
>
> For them, Greenberg notes, Washington looks nothing like the capital many
> others see. Gridlock? There is no gridlock. Only a socialist steamroller
> before which the Republican Party is feeble and afraid. "Evangelicals who
> feel most threatened by trends embrace the Tea Party because they are the
> ones who are fighting back," the report states. Republican base voters
> "think they face a victorious Democratic Party that is intent on expanding
> government to increase dependency and therefore electoral support."
>
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/why-republicans-shut-down-the-government.html
Here's another article on the study, with some alternate focus group quotes:
-- Andy "It's a testament to ketchup that there can be no confusion."