{"id":466800,"date":"2010-03-24T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74885"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:30:55","slug":"poll-tea-party-could-wreck-2010-midterms-for-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/466800","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Tea Party Could Wreck 2010 Midterms for Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Unless the GOP successfully absorbs the Teabaggers into the Borg, the virus just might kill the host<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A Quinnipiac national survey finds that having a Tea Party candidate on a general election congressional race ballot could negatively affect the Republican’s chance of winning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Republicans lead the generic ballot test by a 44%-39% margin over Democrats. However, when a generic Tea Party candidate is thrown in the mix, the Democrat receives 36% and the Republican 25%, with the Tea Partier taking 15%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But…but…I thought Teabaggers were non-partisan independent swing-voter types.<\/p>\n

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According to the poll, it “has more women than men; is mainly white and Republican and voted for John McCain, and strongly supports Sarah Palin.<\/strong>” They (85%) also feel that the government is doing too much.<\/p>\n

“The Tea Party movement is mostly made up of people who consider themselves Republicans<\/strong>,” said Brown. “They are less educated but more interested in politics than the average Joe and Jane Six-Pack and are not in a traditional sense swing voters<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, they are hardline wingnuts who think the Republican Party has gone squishy. And if the GOP can’t get them to behave, it will be NY-23 — all over the country.<\/p>\n

Good luck trying to put that toothpaste back in the tube, Michael Steele.<\/p>\n

Tags: 2010<\/a>, GOP<\/a>, Midterms<\/a>, Republicans<\/a>, Tea Party<\/a>, teabaggers<\/a><\/p>\n

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Unless the GOP successfully absorbs the Teabaggers into the Borg, the virus just might kill the host. A Quinnipiac national survey finds that having a Tea Party candidate on a general election congressional race ballot could negatively affect the Republican’s chance of winning. Republicans lead the generic ballot test by a 44%-39% margin over Democrats. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466800","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\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}