So... how about that Tea Party?

[lostintheodyssey]

badgenome said:

lostintheodyssey said:

badgenome said:

lostintheodyssey said:

Now on to the polls the reason I didn't link them the other times is because I was using firefox and for some reason I can't paste when I use that browser.  Also one of the polls did show that at least earlier in the year they did have 10% of hispanic votes even more recent polls show that they have lost that support so I will admit I was wrong because I doubted they ever had that kind of support.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002529-503544.html

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1436

http://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1109a4TeaParty.pdf

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/02/17/rel4b.pdf

 

So two of them show the tea party to be considerably whiter (~90%), and two of them are very close to the survey you so distrust (within the margin of error). Scathing stuff! I'm truly humbled.

I will ignore your sarcasm and say what I said before which is it's better to look at multiple polls then draw a conclusion.  None of those polls are right the truth is probably somewhere in the middle when you average all of those polls.

But answer the question I asked at the beginning have you ever voted for anyone other than a republican? 

Okay, so then the tea party goes from being frighteningly white to merely a little whiter than society as a whole. Which, again, is not surprising since (1) blacks overwhelmingly support Obama and (2) whites bear more of the tax burden and thus will be more keen to reel in government spending.

And I'm not sure why you care or what it has to do with anything, but yes, I have.

1. After that poll you showed and ones I linked I realize now that I need to see it when it's a tea party candidate against another candidate to really get a better picture of how the nation sees itself.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1 so Obama got 95% out of the total population of blacks that make up 13% and about 2/3 of hispanics and asians that combine for 11% of the population .  He got 43% out of the 74% of whites and McCain got 55% which means the majority of Obamas votes still came from whites .  Even when it's "frighteningly" black, asian, hispanic etc they are still a minority so in the crowds it just looks like a multicultural crowd and there's not a frighteningly high number of anything really.

2.  Whites bear more of the tax burden because once again they make up the majority.  When hispanics or whatever group becomes the majority they will bear the brunt of the taxes.  And taxes doesn't really have anything to do with race anyway it's income and class.

3.  I asked because I was curious who you voted for and why.

4.  In a earlier post I said we have to wait and see but I thought that tea party candidates would not be able to win any major elections simply because they would split the republican party and because they don't make up enough of the population and at the moment I right according to at least one poll.

 http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1436

"Only 13 percent of American voters say they are part of the Tea Party movement, a group that has more women than men; is mainly white and Republican and voted for John McCain, and strongly supports Sarah Palin"

"While voters say 44 - 39 percent that they will vote for a Republican over a Democratic candidate in this November's Congressional elections, if there is a Tea Party candidate on the ballot, the Democrat would get 36 percent to the Republican's 25 percent, with 15 percent for the Tea Party candidate, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds".