Poll: Tea Party candidates come in last

Source: USA TODAY

Days after Sarah Palin headlined the nation's first Tea Party convention, a Rasmussen Reports poll released today shows that a generic "Tea Party candidate" would come in third in a theoretical three-way congressional contest.

The poll found that 36% of voters would support a Democratic candidate on a generic ballot, 25% would back the Republican and 17% would go for the Tea Party pick. Twenty-three percent of respondents are undecided.

In early December, the same poll showed the Tea Party in second place and the GOP in third. Unchanged between the polls, according to Rasmussen, is that 41% of voters have a favorable view of the conservative movement.

The poll of 1,000 likely voters was taken Feb. 7-8, just after the national Tea Party convention in Nashville. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.


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the bad: 42% of voters are definitely willing to support bankster candidates, and 17% are willing to go with batshit insane ones, instead of 36% support for the generic Democratic alternative.

the good: the "Tea Party" is definitely a drain on GOP unity, as long as they hold out for third party status and don't merge with the Republicans during the primaries.

the ugly: we have yet to see the full impact of unfettered corporate influence unleashed by the SCOTUS

that of that 36% percent of generic Democratic candidates, a good 80 - 90% would likely also be "bankster" candidates. It is the very very small sliver of the Democratic party that keeps me voting for them. Yes, the Republicans WILL sell you out, whereas Democrats will only LIKELY sell you out.

In the US at least. The good news? It splits up the GOP.