INSIDE THE GOP: REPORT ON FOCUS GROUPS WITH EVANGELICAL, TEA PARTY, AND MODERATE REPUBLICANS

[BrentWil]

This might be the most interesting focus group I have ever read

http://www.democracycorps.com/attachments/article/954/dcor%20rpp%20fg%20memo%20100313%20final.pdf

If you want to understand the government shutdown and crisis in Washington, you need to get inside the base of the Republican Party. That is what we are doing in the Republican Party Project and these focus groups with Evangelicals, Tea Party, and moderate Republicans. All the passion, nuances and divisions found expression when we conducted this work in the summer.

[targetpractice]

1. Holy cow... The honesty is stunning and nauseating at the same time.

I agree with you... Interesting.

[BrentWil]

2. YOu have to think, the moderate part of the base....

Has to be really alienated at this point. It isn't a winning team, for certain. Not in the long run.

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. having recently moved from SC

I know them intimately and they are why I got the hell outta Dodge.