{"id":411926,"date":"2010-03-10T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f86\/study-seeks-shed-light-tea-party-activists-political-goals-40617\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:12:56","slug":"study-seeks-to-shed-light-on-tea-party-activists%c2%92-politicalgoals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/411926","title":{"rendered":"Study Seeks To Shed Light On Tea Party Activists\u0092 Political*Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"
03.09.10 07:01 PM<\/p>\n

\"\"As the Tea Party movement grows in strength and shows promise to affect the outcome of elections across the country, a new report from the Sam Adams Alliance has sought to understand its supporters’ political motivations. <\/p>\n

The study entitled “The Early Adopters: Reading the Tea Leaves” found that activists are motivated by feelings of responsibility to future generations and belief in America’s founding principles. It also discovered evidence that they are a diverse group composed of individuals who&mdash;often for the first time in their lives&mdash;are becoming involved to change the political landscape and hold elected officials more accountable. <\/p>\n

"A lot of surveys have focused on the Tea Party movement, but they’ve been about what others think of them," said Sam Adams Alliance chairman Eric O’Keefe. <\/p>\n

"We decided to learn what the Tea Party leaders are up to [by asking them]," he added. <\/p>\n

When queried about what issues are "very important" to them, a total of 92 percent of respondents said "budget," some 85 percent pointed to "economy," and 80 percent singled out "defense." <\/p>\n

The poll’s authors also found that 86 percent oppose the formation of a third-party and that 62 percent identified themselves as Republicans. However, only a minority (36 percent) support Sarah Palin’s potential presidential bid in 2012.<\/p>\n

Sam Adams Alliance is a non-profit organization that works to raise awareness of free market principles and policies.
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03.09.10 07:01 PM As the Tea Party movement grows in strength and shows promise to affect the outcome of elections across the country, a new report from the Sam Adams Alliance has sought to understand its supporters’ political motivations. The study entitled “The Early Adopters: Reading the Tea Leaves” found that activists are motivated by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411926","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\/4498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}