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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:02 PM Oct 2015

Tea Party Less Popular Than Ever – No Surprises Here

The Tea Party has hit an all time low in their approval ratings, with just 17% of the public reporting a favorable view of the group. And since the Tea Party has hijacked the Republican Party, that news doesn’t bode well for the Party’s chances in the 2016 elections.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Tea Party Less Popular Than Ever – No Surprises Here (Original Post) GoLeft TV Oct 2015 OP
They are still there, they are just not identifying as TeaParty OakCliffDem Oct 2015 #1
Religious wingnuts will keep sending them back to Congress Warpy Oct 2015 #2
The Real Question Is, Is It Possible To Gerrymander Every District In The South, And The Mid-West TrollBuster9090 Oct 2015 #3

OakCliffDem

(1,274 posts)
1. They are still there, they are just not identifying as TeaParty
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:23 PM
Oct 2015

The TeeBaggers are all still there, still spouting the idiotic drivel, and still working against the country.

Go to a waiting room and ask to have the television channel changed from FOX to MSNBC, and you will get to meet several of them.

Warpy

(111,256 posts)
2. Religious wingnuts will keep sending them back to Congress
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:49 PM
Oct 2015

That's what we're up against, folks, people who will vote for any asshole with an (R) after his name because god.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
3. The Real Question Is, Is It Possible To Gerrymander Every District In The South, And The Mid-West
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 07:21 PM
Oct 2015

Is it possible to gerrymander every House district in the South and the Mid-West to ensure that those 17% of the voters determine who goes to Washington? And the answer is...OBVIOUSLY IT IS.

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