4/15/10

More Tea Bagger Polling

I've spent the better part of the last hour going through the latest national poll on the tea baggers. Who are they? What do they support? Where are they from?

I'll have more insight later, but I wanted to quickly touch upon some fast outcomes.
  • 66 percent of tea baggers are Republican, with nearly one-fifth always voting Republican. 
  • 5 percent identify with the Democratic Party. 
  • 89 percent are white. 
  • Nearly 60% are men. 
  • 37 percent are college graduates. 
Just like the last national poll, the data is not surprising to me in the least. I'll have more later, just something to chew on.

*Update:

Though I think this poll is probably the best to date, I'm still disappointed that it doesn't ask what their professions are.  How many have tax payer funded jobs, are on Medicare, disability, Social Security, unemployment or some other form of government assistance, I think are all critical to any group of people who claim reducing the size of government is their biggest concern.  Such a question gets to the root of the movement.

Another interesting item that stands out to me is 89% of the tea baggers claim to be white.  Roughly 1% claim to be black.  So not surprising is the group's concern that too much is made of problems facing blacks.    As if they would even know the problems facing blacks.  Empathy, I suppose, is not a measurable trait.