older, conservative, Republican
"In three national surveys, done for New Models from December 2009 through February 2010, 57% of Tea Party members called themselves Republicans, another 28% said they were Independents, and 13% were Democrats. Two-thirds of Tea Party members identify as conservatives but 26% say they are moderate and 8% described themselves as liberal
"The study also found Tea Party members are more likely to be male by a 56-44% margin, slightly older than the electorate as a whole and middle income earners. When it comes to issues, the research found that Tea Party activists espouse a strong economic conservatism."
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Here's a very good chuckle --- Take the Tea Party pledge... CLICK
Hah - so they are just like everyone else? Here was a link I found attached to the article: http://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/tea-party-movement-is-largely-people-who-feel-threatened-by-our-pigmented-president/
ReplyDeleteIrene's point being, I think, that there is a generation of Americans for whom the concept of racial equality is still not quite accepted. They're old.
ReplyDeleteI copied the pledge off this blog and sent it to one of my left wing sympathizers.
ReplyDeleteHe must have not read it carefully, because he angrily took it as a serious attempt to get him to sign the pledge !!!!
Surprised the heck out of me because I thought he was sharper than that -----
I thought he would pick up on the sarcasm for sure --maybe he was just having a bad day.