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Tea Party Movement?...How's it doing?

Feb 22, 2016 12:34PM PST

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Doing as well as it should, I'd say
Feb 22, 2016 1:17PM PST

All should be listened to but not all should lead.

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(NT) old "news"?
Feb 22, 2016 3:58PM PST
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RE: old "news"?
Feb 22, 2016 7:04PM PST

It appears so....

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Including your gallup link
Feb 23, 2016 3:35AM PST

Evidently you don't find it a 'convenient truth' that the stats in most of the charts range from 2010 to 2014 (the very years that covered the IRS scandal about how Tea Party groups were targeted to NOT receive their tax exempt status which forced them OUT of key races, including POTUS, and couldn't participate like they did BEFORE the 2010 elections)....

And the last few charts ONLY showed 2010 when those groups were dropping from sight as the IRS stalled or denied them completely.

Better stats to show voter participation right NOW are the actual results from SC and NV over the last week..........Dems in NV DROPPED by over 40,000 and Reps INCREASED in SC by over 70%. Whether voters are calling themselves Tea Party members or not, the votes prove they aren't gone. Since the roles are reversed this week (tonite for Reps in NV and Saturday in SC for Dems), we'll see those numbers next.

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Response
Feb 23, 2016 4:42AM PST
Evidently you don't find it a 'convenient truth' that the stats in most of the charts range from 2010 to 2014

Most yes...but not all...Because 2010 is when ONE of the Tea Parties was first formed? Actually the chart goes to late 2015.....You're Welcome...that time range was when the "Tea Party" had it's highest participation, it's been all downhill after 2014.

Here are some "newer links"

Better stats to show voter participation right NOW are the actual results from SC and NV over the last week

So the "Tea Party" is happy with Trump?

Ken Crow co-founded one of the first national tea party organizations in opposition to the policies of Presidents George W. Bush and Obama, had been an outspoken supporter of Mr. Trump this election cycle, but told The Washington Times he’s become repulsed by the billionaire businessman and reality TV star’s volatile personality and crude antics on the stump.

“I was on the Trump train, but enough is enough,” Mr. Crow said in announcing his dizzying realignment. “When is Trump going to act like a president? The answer is he’s not.”



So the "Tea Party" is happy with Rubio?

Maybe they are happy with Trump OR Sanders

The GOP tried to capture the Tea Party, and to some extent it did. But it failed to assuage its anger—arguably, it made things worse. In their recent symposium against Trump, the editors of National Review claimed the Tea Party represented “a revival of an understanding of American greatness,” understood as liberty through constitutional limited government, “an understanding to which Trump is tone-deaf at best and implicitly hostile at worst.” That no less a Tea Party icon than Palin is now endorsing Trump seems to be a sign of the movement’s dissolution. Jim Geraghty mused that perhaps the Tea Party isn’t just “splintered and weak. Maybe it’s dead.”

Maybe so, but the emotions that first animated the Tea Party are still very much alive. And the message of those early Tea Partiers is more or less the message of those now throwing their support behind both Trump and Sanders: We are angry, and we will not be ignored.


Of course any of the people making quotes could belong to a different "Tea Party" than you...there seems to be at least 3 editions of the "Tea Party"

You haven't come out and said you're supporting Trump....are you supporting Sanders?

You want change in government...so does Sanders.
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There are actually hundreds of
Feb 23, 2016 5:07AM PST

'same thinking' groups across the country who hold Tea Party attitudes, and whether they are funded or not, they are showing up in the votes. Most are for Cruz and Trump more than any other candidates. There are far more than '3 editions', JP.....

Sanders isn't getting any of their support....he's mainly supported by college kids looking for the continuation of the 'free stuff' and unfortunately for him, they will be on spring break during the next four weeks when he's going to be needing them the most. I guess he could hold on-line rallies that beg them to vote now and he'll give them all free spring breaks next year. lol

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RE: There are actually hundreds of
Feb 23, 2016 7:13AM PST
There are actually hundreds of 'same thinking' groups across the country who hold Tea Party attitudes,

The "Tea Party" is dead...the attitudes live on?
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The "Liberty Party" is dead
Feb 23, 2016 8:38AM PST

but its attitudes live on. So are the "Free Soil" and "Whig" parties but their marks on current attitudes remain strong.

Currently, we have the "Snap Chat" and "Selfie Stick" parties with which to contend. Presently, these are the most dangerous of all.