The “Tea Party” is a topic popping up on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and a quick Google search shows 42 million web hits. You have seen the Rallies, the Signs, heard CNN, read articles on the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times. Television Political commentators find the Tea Party a constant topic. But ‘Who’ is the Tea Party? Recent ‘Rasmussen’ and CNN Polls of registered voters across the U.S. show the Tea Party with over 1 million members Nation Wide and growing, serious in their intent and marking success after success.
National Statistics:
The age of members is evenly distributed, from 18 to 64, with the majority in the 30-49 age group. The movement is truly Nation Wide. Regions of the South and Midwest have 60% of the Members, while the North East and the West have 25% of the members. The movement is predominately White, while recruitment for all groups of Americans is a key goal noted amongst Tea Party leaders. The Tea Party does not support any one Political Party, but are more of a Voice and influence.
The members may also belong to the Republican or Democratic Parties and be liberal or conservative, showing most Americans can believe in fiscal responsibility across any Party Line. In short, the Tea Party is comprised of Americans from all walks of life, income, genders and beliefs. The Tea Party movement is what the Founding Fathers so aptly referred to as “We the People.”
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The Tea Party movement is what the Founding Fathers so aptly referred to as “We the People.”
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This is true if you believe that “We the People” are, like the tea baggers, mostly white (79%), affluent (55%), male (55%), conservative (70%), possessing no or little advanced education (68%), married folks who don’t agree with Obama’s policies. I call these folks Republicans. Maybe that’s why the Tea Party tracks only 8% Democratic while the Nation as a whole tracks 32%.
How rude of you to use that term, why are you on a website that you obviously don’t agree with making offensive comments? I feeel sorry for you and your misguided judgements. And you are quite incorrect about the Education of the Tea Party, check your facts please.
Ten yrs ago I lost my job and could not find another for sometime, so I went to the the local social county bldg for medical ins to protect my 401k in case I was to be hospitalized. I did’nt think I would have a problem qualifying since I paid into the welfare system 25yrs and besides I had the goverments word this was the reason working middle class pays into it. Well the social worker informed me that I don’t qualify because of my 401k and the goverment doesn’t feel that I have’nt suffered enough and that I can pay the hospital bills with my 401k if I were to be hospitalized. I walked out of the office in disbelief, dazed, and angry. Since then I have been anti gov. I believe that the Tea Party Group is made up of people like myself who are fed up with the stealing and lying that this goverment continues to do to middle class working people of this country.
I guess I am what you would call a liberal. I believe in helping my brother or sister if they get knocked down. I don’t whine about what I don’t have and we have used our 401 K to help our children through these hard times. People on wellfare do not have a 401K to fall back on. They go without medical care because the medical system does not always allow them to obtain care. That is what that 401 K money is for …your care not just to have and hold. I was in a Mexican resturant a few weeks ago and group of Tea Party People were there. They were talking about our waiters who were hispanic in an insulting manor. They were discussing the President and his wife in the same insulting manor. These are not people I want representing me. Grow up, we are not in High School anymore. Social Security is not wellfare it is insurance that we have paid for over many decades much like a 401 K that has been raided by the same people you want to elect. Get an education in real life.