POLL RESULTS: Majority Do Not Support Tea Party in Politics
We had over 2,500 people participate in our poll on Tea Party influence.
Tea Party members flocked to the Tea Party Express rally in Manchester on Monday.
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A majority of those who participated in this morning’s poll said that the Tea Party has not played a positive role in American politics.
As of today at 4:30 p.m. today, 55 percent of those who voted do not believe the Tea Party has played a good part in politics. A total of 44 percent said they believe the political party has played a positive part in modern politics.
Amherst Patch had 2583 people vote in today’s poll, which comes right before tonight’s "Tea Party Republican Debate" in Tampa, Florida at 8 p.m. tonight.
The debate will be hosted by CNN and include Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman.
The Tea Party Express is a co-sponsor of tonight’s political debate.
Patch will be covering tonight’s debate and updating you on the performance of each GOP candidate.
Kyle Hammond
11:46 pm on Monday, September 12, 2011
Well, right off the bat, I can tell the poll was conducted by people who had no idea exactly what they were polling. The "Tea Party" is NOT a political party. Before you folks decide to conduct a poll again that is related to Tea Party in any way, you might consider educating yourselves first. Hint - do not rely on the media for you education in that regard, because THEY don't know what it is either.
John St Croix
7:42 pm on Monday, September 26, 2011
Unfortunately TPE is not a real tea party, it's a GOP group.
Java-RN
9:29 am on Thursday, November 17, 2011
No, the Tea Party is not an actual party but many politicians happily align themselves with it and it's "values". The poll did not refer to them specifically as a party but asked people's opinion of the undeniable impact it has had in our politics.