Tea Baggers are 18% of the population.

And yet, they claim to speak for the majority of Americans. Apparently their math isn't any better than their spelling. The majority of Americans spoke for themselves in the last election, and I hope they will be loud and clear in the election this November.

All I can do is donate what I can to the Democratic Party and always VOTE in every election. I vote a straight Democratic ticket to keep the real majority in office with the hopes that they can get past the little spoiled GOP tantrum throwers, with their little arms crossed saying, "no - no" all the time. Time out rethugs - go stand in the corner until you learn to behave like adults.

I have all my credit cards paid off and I'm paying cash for what I want, even if I have to put off purchasing something until I save up for it. And the one credit card I have is with my community credit union so that any interest I pay, should there be an emergency and I have to use it, will go to the credit union and my community. NO MORE of MY money goes to Wall Street if I can help it.

Other than that, I can keep myself informed, which is more than I can say for the Tea Baggers, since they get their (mis)information(?) from Faux News and Limbaugh.

I refuse to argue with right wing Fox viewers. It's like trying to reason with an alien from another planet. All I can say to them is, "change the channel".

If anyone can tell me anything else I can do to help our cause, I wish they would tell me. I just don't think I could handle even one day with the rethugs in the majority again. I want my country to feel like The United States of America again - if that's even possible now.

wow dynamic group.

majority. Or did you forget "the moral majority" that helped Raygun into office in 1979? Or how about the family values types that were the rage when Clinton was in office, they considered themselves a majority too and tried to force their ideal of what family values were even though when asked the best answer they could come up with was "family values were whatever you wanted them to be".

Edited to add..........same people same non sense as tea baggers, these are the same folks that were afraid Saddam was going to bomb the US with scud missiles in the Gulf war. I said it in 1979, they poof out their chests bragging how brave they are yet they fear everything under the sun.

And they get coverage as if they mattered... It's wrong and misleading to give them such prominence in the national news.Unless they are being spotlighted as an aberration.

I misspelled a word. ;( I corrected it immediately. :thumbsup: You don't think that means I'm turning into a Tea puppet do you? :scared: I might have brushed up against one of them when I went to the store this morning. x( Maybe I caught the bad spelling virus from someone. :crazy: I'll take two aspirin and go STRAIGHT to my dictionary. :think:

..which is the primary media venue that promotes them is less than 1% of the population.

Yet to hear and read people on here every day, and the energy that we all spend talking about "Oh my god, Morning Joe said this.......Tweety said this.....we need to e-mail the head of CNN!!!!!!!" and on and on and on, you'd think that was the absolute most important media issue facing us all.

Most people I know of barely even register the teabaggers, know what they are, care about them, etc. Most people are too busy just trying to get by and get through the day. For any of us to concern ourselves about the impression that 1% of the population get about these people who as you said are 18% of the population is just silly.

People who watch cable news are already staked out on either side of the political divide anyway. And I just don't see coverage or discussion of these loons anywhere other than political internet message boards, or on cable news.

I'd be curious to see a source for that number. We're seeing in the "straw polling" that people like Mooselini barely draw 20% of the vote...there are more who are Paulbots and Mittens supporters. I'd say the number is more like 20% of the GOOP. For giggles, let's say they're 25%. So, if 42% of the electorate (not the population on the whole) voted rushpublican in '08 and this is 25% of the 42...or of the nearly 130 million people who cast ballots (compared to 300 million in the general population) in '08, that boils down to maybe 15 million people...maybe. It's probably more along the lines of the numbers of people who watch Faux Noise...around 2 to 3 million...which would be less than 5% of the total rushpublican vote.

The teabagger game is to make lots of noise...inflate numbers through volume and corporate media saturation. You can't make a big lie work unless you make up perceived importance or numbers.

As always it's how the question is framed and who its presented to. It's led to a lot of contradictory polls as the corporate media try to spin the numbers to justify all the attention they're giving them. My bets are if you called 1,000 people and asked them if they didn't like to pay taxes, you'd get a lot bigger sample than if you asked if they thought they'd paid too much or the infamous "some say others pay too little, do you think you're paying too much?".

I would venture that there are some issues the baggers are pissed about that we could agree on. The private insurance company mandate is one...but for totally different reasons. We know why, they're puppets to those who profit and clueless other than it's "socialism". So when you sample people it's always worthwhile to try to dig a little deeper into the numbers or questions (if you can) and whose doing the polling. DKOS does a great job in doing this digging as does Nate Silver.

Framing it as with "agree with a lot of what teabaggers think"...I would say that's a broad enough statement to have merit, just not totally indicitive of the die hards we see out there spewing their hatred and finding new and creative ways to bastardize the language.

Cheers...

So, yes, I understand how survey research is done. Thank you for your impressions.

"CBS Sunday Morning" this morning (9 AM-10:30 AM). They did a short segment on the Tea Party and that was the percentage they reported.

:D

A coincidence? I think not.

Compare the news coverage of the 18% baggers and the 39% against invasion.

The baggers are a media creation.
A Potemkin Village designed to shield the ruling class from any reform.

*http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq16.htm

5 people show up in a town hall meeting of 80 and shout and get on TV

It is the old "nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd"

and watch FOX.

18% No way are they anywhere near that large.

more like 1% or 2% max.

Pure Nixonian-type BS

Who says they are 18% of us.