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Tea Party Activists: Male, Conservative & Educated

According to a recent poll, in a two- party race for Congress the Tea Party would vote overwhelmingly Republican. Most of them have attended college and are male.


It’s already known that the Tea Party supporters are overwhelmingly white, but this poll shows that most live in rural areas and are of a higher income level.



Nearly three-quarters of Tea Party activists attended college, compared to 54 percent of all Americans, and more than 3 in 4 call themselves conservatives.

“Keep in mind that this is a pretty small sample of Tea Party activists,” Holland said. “But even taking that into account, the demographic gaps that the poll finds between those activists and the general public on gender, education, income, ideology, and voting behavior appear to be significant differences.”

The poll indicates that about 24 percent of the public generally favors the Tea Party movement but has not taken any actions such as donating money or attending a rally. Adding in the 11 percent who say they are active, a total of 35 percent could be described as Tea Party supporters. That larger group is also predominantly male, higher-income, and conservative.

Some 45 percent of all Americans say they don’t know enough about the Tea Party to have a view of the movement; 1 in 5 say they oppose the Tea Party.

Posted in Politics.

7 comments

By Anomaly – February 18, 2010

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  • Rebel

    Comrade Anomaly: No, I am not. You have already said that the Tea Partiers are racist. I have been called a racist. It is well known fact that “Rural” is a code word for rednecks with pickups and gun racks. You liberals see everything through the prism of your meaningless preconceptions and generalizations . You post is a very thinly disguised example of your racist stereotypes. We are never going to get anywhere as long as the radical left defines everyone on the right as a racist homophobe. I have educated myself on the secret code language of the left and I am merely providing a translation for the other three or four people that read your lies.

    • Anomaly100

      @Rebel: This post is not an opinion by Anomaly. This is a post about a poll. Follow the link & you will see, I merely wrote a couple of sentences about the poll. Check my links & you will see that I am, Fair & Balanced. The poll said “rural.” I wrote “rural.” Rural is not a word pertaining to “rednecks.” It’s a word used in a POLL. It’s not my secret liberal agenda to find racsim in your party & flush it out. Sometimes, I just post what I find in the news that I find newsworthy. You are so frightened of me calling anyone in your party a racist, yet you say words like, “radical left” and my “racist stereotypes”, “comrade”, etc. There is no “secret coded language. I simply wrote about A POLL. The End.

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  • Rebel

    What Anomaly means when she says “white” and living in “RURAL” areas is that they are racist. Those are liberal codewords for racist. Anomaly is typical of the left wing flakes who when flustered or when proven wrong resort to name calling. It’s always the liberals who play the race card. You liberals are so boring and predictable.

    • Anomaly100

      @Rebel: No, I meant they are white. I did not say it’s good or bad. It just is. I did not write this, it’s taken from a poll. I did not take the poll, I just blogged it. You’re over the top, as always.

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