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Gallup: Tea Party Supporters Overlap Republican Base

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Eight out of 10 Tea Party supporters are Republicans
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Tea Party Supporters Overlap Republican Base

Conservative Republicans outnumber moderate/liberal Republicans in the general population by about a 2-to-1 margin; among Tea Party supporters, the ratio is well more than 3 to 1. More generally, almost 8 out of 10 Tea Party supporters are Republicans, compared with 44% of all national adults.

These findings are based on three surveys Gallup conducted in March, May, and June of this year. Thirty percent of Americans, on average, identify as Tea Party supporters -- a percentage remarkably consistent across the three surveys.
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This potential impact is clear from data showing that Tea Party supporters are more enthusiastic about voting this year than are Americans overall, and more likely to say they are certain to vote. At the same time, Tea Party supporters are no more enthusiastic or certain to vote than the traditional Republican base -- conservative Republicans.
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While Tea Party supporters are not universal in their backing of Republican candidates, they skew heavily in that direction. About 80% of Tea Party supporters say they will vote for the Republican candidate in their district, slightly lower than the projected 95% Republican vote among conservative Republicans.
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The Tea Party movement has received considerable news coverage this year, in large part because it appears to represent a new and potentially powerful force on the American political scene. Whether Tea Party supporters are a voting segment that is unique and distinct from the more traditional Republican conservative base, however, appears questionable. There is significant overlap between Tea Party supporters and conservative Republicans, both groups are highly enthusiastic about voting, and both are heavily skewed toward Republican candidates -- although the latter somewhat more so than the former.
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Thanks Gallup for reconfirming what most of us already knew.
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I wonder how many Communist Party members overlap the Democrat base? Probably an equal percentage.
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I wonder how many Communist Party members overlap the Democrat base? Probably an equal percentage.
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That's different. Somehow. It just is. You racist!
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The tea party is the GOP base.
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Modbert said: ↑

Eight out of 10 Tea Party supporters are Republicans
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Tea Party Supporters Overlap Republican Base

Conservative Republicans outnumber moderate/liberal Republicans in the general population by about a 2-to-1 margin; among Tea Party supporters, the ratio is well more than 3 to 1. More generally, almost 8 out of 10 Tea Party supporters are Republicans, compared with 44% of all national adults.

These findings are based on three surveys Gallup conducted in March, May, and June of this year. Thirty percent of Americans, on average, identify as Tea Party supporters -- a percentage remarkably consistent across the three surveys.
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While Tea Party supporters are not universal in their backing of Republican candidates, they skew heavily in that direction. About 80% of Tea Party supporters say they will vote for the Republican candidate in their district, slightly lower than the projected 95% Republican vote among conservative Republicans.
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The Tea Party movement has received considerable news coverage this year, in large part because it appears to represent a new and potentially powerful force on the American political scene. Whether Tea Party supporters are a voting segment that is unique and distinct from the more traditional Republican conservative base, however, appears questionable. There is significant overlap between Tea Party supporters and conservative Republicans, both groups are highly enthusiastic about voting, and both are heavily skewed toward Republican candidates -- although the latter somewhat more so than the former.
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Thanks Gallup for reconfirming what most of us already knew.
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You are mistaken:

"The teaparty is an independent grass roots movement that is not aligned with any single party and recognizes no leader."TM
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Mad Scientist said: ↑

I wonder how many Communist Party members overlap the Democrat base? Probably an equal percentage.
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No! It's more like 9.9/10
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Mad Scientist said: ↑

I wonder how many Communist Party members overlap the Democrat base? Probably an equal percentage.
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I'm pretty sure more Communist Party members vote for the Communist Party.

Yes... all 15 of them.
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Article 15 said: ↑

The tea party is the GOP base.
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Hey comon. Stop that nonsense!!! They're overwhelmingly rightwing Republicans who will overwhelmingly vote Republican in the fall...

...how the hell did you get from that to labeling them the 'GOP base'??!!

(The real question is, how did THEY get from that to claiming it wasn't the case?)
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I wonder how many Communist Party members overlap the Democrat base? Probably an equal percentage.
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I bet you didn't intend to characterize the Tea Partiers as the rightwing equivalent of Communists...

...but you did.
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Where are all the teabaggers to tell us that we are sooooo wrong and then chant the war cry: "Wait until November, motherfuckers!"?

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