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Thursday, 17 Oct 2013 11:55 AM
By Courtney Coren-Newsmax.
The tea party's popularity has fallen dramatically among Republicans, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's standing among tea party supporters has skyrocketed, a new poll finds.
According to the latest Pew Research Center survey, only 27 percent of moderate and liberal Republicans view the tea party favorably, a dramatic decrease from 46 percent in June.
In the poll taken from Oct. 9-13 of 1,504 adults, nearly half of respondents overall, 49 percent, said they also have a negative view of the tea party. Only 30 percent said they have a positive view, which was down from 37 percent in Pew's June poll.
Pew also asked participants about their views of Cruz, the freshman senator whose opposition to Obamacare initiated the government shutdown on Oct. 1. The poll found that Cruz's popularity has soared among tea party Republicans to 74 percent, up from 47 percent in a July survey that asked the same question.
But the latest survey also revealed that his standing among non-tea party Republicans has dropped significantly. Fifty-eight percent of non-tea party Republicans in the Pew July poll had no opinion of the Texas senator because they didn't know him. At that time 26 percent of respondents voiced a favorable opinion of him, while 16 percent expressed an unfavorable view. But in the latest poll, his unfavorable rating nearly doubled to 31 percent.
The Pew poll confirmed that the popularity of the tea party movement has dropped across all political groups Republican, Democrat, and independent.
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/gop-sours-tea-party/2013/10/17/id/531600?ns_mail_uid=80922274&ns_mail_job=1542062_10172013&promo_code=15349-1
Pew Surveyhttp://www.people-press.org/2013/10/16/tea-partys-image-turns-more-negative/
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)and we are Forced to choose to vote for the "centrist" corporate friendly candidate.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,237 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)in general, what will they do? Hopefully they'll stay home next election.
BluegrassStateBlues
(881 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Just wait a while and they will eventually turn to dust and blow away.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Ferretherder
(1,446 posts)...'what is a LIBERAL REPUBLICAN?'
tblue37
(65,477 posts)have been considered liberal Republicans in the past.
I suspect that Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton, among others, are much more liberal in their hearts than in their policies, and that they've moved to the right of center for purely pragmatic political purposes, but if you look at what they (and other Dems) have done, then you have to acknowledge that their votes, their policy inclinations, and Obama's (and Bill's) appointments in general are more liberal Republican (what used to be called "Rockefeller Republican" than liberal (or FDR) Democratic.
Ferretherder
(1,446 posts)n/t