{"id":327446,"date":"2010-02-12T18:46:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/polls-have-good-news-for-the-gop-but-only-if-tea-party-is-excluded\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T18:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:46:28","slug":"polls-have-good-news-for-the-gop-but-only-if-tea-party-is-excluded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/327446","title":{"rendered":"Polls Have Good News For The GOP, But Only If Tea Party Is Excluded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Republican+logo_1961_19614397_0_0_7020970_300.jpg\" alt=\"Polls have good news for the GOP, but only if Tea Party is excluded \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">A potential split among America&#8217;s conservatives appears to be emerging as a pair of new Rasmussen polls indicates that likely Republican voters now outnumber the Democratic electorate, but the picture changes when the Tea Party movement comes into play. <\/p>\n<p>The first survey&#8212;which is a generic ballot&#8212;found that 44 percent of respondents would vote for their district&#8217;s Republican congressional candidate, while 36 percent would cast their ballot for the local Democrat, according to Rasmussen Reports. These numbers have led some commentators to suggest that President Obama&#8217;s party may be in the worst electoral shape in a half century. <\/p>\n<p>However, when the poll participants were asked about their preferences in a three-way congressional contest with a Tea Party candidate on the ballot, the Democrat garnered 36 percent of votes, while the GOP candidate&#8217;s support fell to around 25 percent. The hypothetical Tea Party candidate picked up 17 percent of the vote. <\/p>\n<p>To confirm a growing split among conservatives, an <i>ABC<\/i>\/<i>Washington Post<\/i> poll found that 35 percent of those who identify themselves as Republicans expressed favorable views of the Tea Party movement, and 40 percent saw it unfavorably. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19614397-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19614397\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A potential split among America&#8217;s conservatives appears to be emerging as a pair of new Rasmussen polls indicates that likely Republican voters now outnumber the Democratic electorate, but the picture changes when the Tea Party movement comes into play. The first survey&#8212;which is a generic ballot&#8212;found that 44 percent of respondents would vote for their [&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-327446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327446","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=327446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}