a
dickey part
hard-hearted supposedly have been dominated by them
for the past two years
we were told
these people
these are people who are just
they're just people who have never been involved in politics before they're
people who are just they're just so outraged at the uh... the prophet
profligate spending of this country here just third just about um...
there just about uh... fiscal discipline and all they care about his finances
they've never met involve the party they come from all walks of life their
thereafter they're democrats their independence their republicans they're
black they're white
and they just care about fiscal discipline and that's why they've got
such a stranglehold on our politics there so important
c_n_n_ right now is probably dispatching entire camera crew just cuz i'm talking
about them
well ladies and gentlemen
it turns out
none of that is true
luna for bao ninh
it's what i've been saying
since day one about these people
it's why
many other people have been saying about them
and now we have
in para kal proof
and of course if your tea party here
the words in parable proof
mean we have actual data
numbers
and of course if you're it
tea party here
uh... at this point this is when you checkout because you say
uh... i don't believe in
david campbell robert putnam
uh... one is an associate professor of political science at notre dame
the other it professor of public policy at harvard
scores
of course
their professors what did they know
numbers
give me a break
not only is the tea party
an incredibly toxic brand now for the american people
it is also
the disapproval the tea party is climbing
in twenty ten a new york times c_b_s_ news survey found that eighteen percent
of americans had an unfavorable opinion of it
twenty one percent had a favorable opinion
forty six percent had not heard announce fourteen months later
support has slipped a twenty percent
and their opponents have doubled to forty percent
that tea party was ranks lower
than any of the twenty three other groups we asked about lower than both
republicans and democrats
even less popular then though much-maligned groups like
eighty s
and move
interest ling li
one group that approaches it
in unpopularity is the christian right
i wonder why that may be
we all recall the famous founding father
no no i'm sorry
the famous tea party are dressed as a founding father
who was at a uh... press conference saying
we will give up all the taxes that if they were peeled don't ask don't tell
if they repeal the repeal of don't ask don't tell
and fight the fact
but there is some movement amongst american still not a majority
who wanted wanted to a smaller government
and oppose redistribution of income
except except
these researchers have found
that in fact
contrary
tell a story that tea party years
are non-partisan
jasmine hurricanes who are upset about the spending i never thought of before
my life
came out here to stay partly relic style was going on in this country
and i want no part of its talk about the party
it turns out but these researchers who interviewed
three thousand americans back in two thousand six to track
their political affiliations
have found
past republican affiliation is the single strongest predictor of tea party
support today
not what do you care about fiscal discipline not what you care about the
spending not what you can it dosn't matter if u
are a strong long-time republican partisan
that is the most indicative of your support
of the tea party
and it's not a creature of the great recession
people have suffered from this economy arnaud more likely to become tea party
years than anyone else
so what did t partners have in common
folks sit down for this one
this is going to be shocking
they are overwhelmingly white
but even compared to other white republicans
they had a lot will guard for immigrants in blacks long before morocco bomb it
was president and they still do
comment i have a heart attack
more important
they were disproportionately social conservatives in two thousand six
wired
you mean it's not about fiscal discipline
it's just about the same old moral majority that we have known
over the past forty years from the republican party
next to being a republican
means the number to determining factor
as to whether or not you are a tea parties to border
after being a republican
was a desire
back in two thousand six
before there was a tea party
to see religion play a prominent role in politics
who knew
i mean
i do
they see quote deeply religious elected officials approve of religious leaders
engaging in politics
and what religion
brought into political debates
the tea party generals may say they're overriding concern is smaller government
but not their rank and file
who are more concerned about putting god
in government
so
unless the tea party
was about that
not get around to uses
and haven't come back
and taken over government
they are uh... myths
appropriately named
and so when you wonder why michelle bachman this reconstruction is christian
ist this dominion is christian ist
it's so popular with the tea party
i had a story a it's not about harry economic policies
it's about the fact that she submissive
to her husband