If Obamacare fails, then what?

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

Demography suggests that the tea party is the party of the past almost by definition.

Are you sure?  All the demography studies i've seen on the tea party have shown that they're basically very evenly represntative of the population demographics as a whole.

Sure they aren't portayed that way... but actual demographics...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/127181/tea-partiers-fairly-mainstream-demographics.aspx

pretty much dead on mainstream.

 

Actually far more representative proportionally then either Republicans or Democrats.

 

That poll was from 2010 (and early 2010 at that) when the Tea Party was something resembling general-purpose populist movement, angry about government spending. As soon as the election approached, it was rapidly wedded to the ideals of the fringe Right, of Birchers and the people who waste their breath talking about Agenda 21. I would imagine a current poll would reflect very white, almost exclusively rural or suburban, and further up the age range.