{"id":305025,"date":"2010-02-10T22:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/polls-struggle-to-capture-impact-of-tea-party-movement\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T22:01:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:01:21","slug":"polls-struggle-to-capture-impact-of-tea-party-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/305025","title":{"rendered":"Polls Struggle To Capture Impact Of Tea Party Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/tax_1961_19604079_0_0_7031963_300.jpg\" alt=\"Polls struggle to capture impact of Tea Party movement \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Just days after the first Tea Party nation&#8217;s convention wound down in Nashville several opinion polls appeared to send conflicting messages about the movement&#8217;s likely impact in this crucial election year. <\/p>\n<p>According to a <i>CNN<\/i>\/Opinion Research Poll, only about a third of Americans view the movement favorably, while a plurality (40 percent) have not heard of it or don&#8217;t have enough information to form an opinion. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, about 26 percent of the public is critical of the grassroots movement. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Tea Party movement is a blank slate to many Americans, which is not surprising for a political movement that is only about a year old,&quot; said <i>CNN<\/i> Polling Director Keating Holland. <\/p>\n<p>However, there are signals that the movement may already be influencing electoral outcomes in some key states. <\/p>\n<p>For example, a new poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports shows Texas Governor Rick Perry leading Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison 44 percent to 29 percent in the race for reelection. <\/p>\n<p>Perry was endorsed by former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has been branded by some as the unofficial leader of the Tea Party movement. <\/p>\n<p>Palin delivered the keynote address at the Nashville convention Feb. 6, and a day later she made a public appearance with Perry on the campaign trail in suburban Houston, according to <i> The Daily Texan<\/i>. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19604079-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19604079\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after the first Tea Party nation&#8217;s convention wound down in Nashville several opinion polls appeared to send conflicting messages about the movement&#8217;s likely impact in this crucial election year. According to a CNN\/Opinion Research Poll, only about a third of Americans view the movement favorably, while a plurality (40 percent) have not heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}