{"id":516183,"date":"2010-04-05T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=76855"},"modified":"2010-04-05T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:30:48","slug":"new-gallup-poll-tea-party-less-popular-than-russia-communist-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516183","title":{"rendered":"New Gallup Poll: Tea Party Less Popular than Russia, Communist China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-76859\" title=\"4469683458_e9785cd809\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/04\/4469683458_e9785cd809-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"175\" \/>There&#8217;s not many surprises in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/127181\/Tea-Partiers-Fairly-Mainstream-Demographics.aspx#1\">the new Gallup poll about the Tea Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The poll found that, surprise!, <strong>70% of Teabaggers are conservatives<\/strong>, which means the 43% of the movement&#8217;s so-called &#8220;independents&#8221; are <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">white men<\/span> voters who pull the lever for the GOP, but don&#8217;t want to call themselves Republicans after George W. Bush&#8217;s pooch-screwing and with the cast of clowns currently running the party.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting, however, is that only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/127181\/Tea-Partiers-Fairly-Mainstream-Demographics.aspx#2\">37% of Americans view Teabaggery favorably.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Translation: the Teabaggers are really unpopular.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, President Obama&#8217;s favorability number <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/obama_fav.htm\">is nearly 20 points higher at 55%<\/a> &#8212; while Russia and China come in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/126116\/canada-places-first-image-contest-iran-last.aspx\">at 47% and 42% respectively<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The good news for the Teabaggers is they are still slightly more popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/126116\/canada-places-first-image-contest-iran-last.aspx\">than Saudi Arabia (35%)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollster.com\/polls\/us\/fav-palin.php\">the Quitter (36.8%).<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=76855&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_76855\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s not many surprises in the new Gallup poll about the Tea Party. The poll found that, surprise!, 70% of Teabaggers are conservatives, which means the 43% of the movement&#8217;s so-called &#8220;independents&#8221; are white men voters who pull the lever for the GOP, but don&#8217;t want to call themselves Republicans after George W. Bush&#8217;s pooch-screwing [&hellip;]<\/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-516183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516183","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=516183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}