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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter the shutdown debacle, the tea party's approval rating is 23 percent.
In other words, it's the first time the tea party has ever been supported by a minority. ~ Jay Leno
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After the shutdown debacle, the tea party's approval rating is 23 percent. (Original Post)
Scuba
Oct 2013
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Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)1. Nice to know the size of the problem.
The irreducible minimum is 23%. Not quite as bad as I thought. I'd have guessed about 32%.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)3. 51% of Tea Partiers don't consider themselves Republicans.
I saw that in a poll this morning.
Since about 30% of America consider themselves "conservatives", that means about 22% of Republicans nationwide do not approve of them.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)2. Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times
So yeah the tea party are a bunch of back stabbing political group
Cha
(297,655 posts)4. Oh, that's funny, Leno..