Impacts on the 2010: the Tea Party drama.

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Recently, polls have been published that show people who are identifying themselves as member of the Tea Party as opposed to members of the democrat party or the Republicans.

an NBC/WSJ poll published yesterday showed the following:

Republicans... 28% favorable... 43% negative

Democrats..... 35% favorable... 45% negative

Tea Party ..... 41% favorable... 23% negative

A Rasmussen poll published Monday:

In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided.

Among voters not affiliated with either major party, the Tea Party comes out on top. Thirty-three percent (33%) prefer the Tea Party candidate, and 30% are undecided. Twenty-five percent (25%) would vote for a Democrat, and just 12% prefer the GOP.
Among Republican voters, 39% say they’d vote for the GOP candidate, but 33% favor the Tea Party option.

Later on in the article, the following was published:

Recent polling shows that 73% of Republican voters believe their leaders in Washington are out of touch with the party base.

Put this information together, and what do you get?

The last factoid provided by Rasmussen is, if anything, understated.

The question becomes: what is the impact of all of this in 2010?

Party elite types on either side would be foolish to reject this out of hand. Those candidates who are capable of tapping into the growing rage by an abused electorate will win in landslides previously unknown.

Faaaascinating stuff as the models are rewritten.
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