Jim Devine posted from the "NYT": New York TIMES / April 14, 2010
Poll Finds Tea Party Anger Rooted in Issues of Class By KATE ZERNIKE and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN Tea party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, tend to be Republican, white, male, and married, and their strong opposition to the Obama administration is more rooted in political ideology than anxiety about their personal economic situation, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters look like Republicans in many ways, but they hold more conservative views on a range of issues and tend to be older than Republicans generally. They are also more likely than Republicans as a whole to describe themselves as ?very conservative? and President Obama as ?very liberal.? [more at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html] ************************************************************************* Like the Hitlerites, these Tea Party types have some big money behind them. Not only Don (the West Virginia owner of unsafe mines) Blankenship, but the Kochs who bankroll scores of free-market and libertarian think tanks, institutes and advocacy groups. Greenpeace estimates that the Koch family shelled out $25 million from 2005 to 2008 funding the "climate denial machine," which means they outspent Exxon Mobile three to one. http://www.alternet.org/story/146504/the_roots_of_stalin_in_the_tea_party_movement *********************************************************************** http://wobblytimes.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
