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Trouble with a Tea

By Johnny Roosh

Speaking of  Quinnipiac polls…

The health care deform bill has already lit up the tea partiers…which could be good…or could be bad for the GOP.

It depends.

…on how (truly) conservative the GOP wants to be next time around.

Americans say they’ll vote for a Republican over a Democrat in the November elections by a 44 to 39 percent margin.

But the addition of a Tea Party candidate to the ballot changes the dynamic: The Republican candidate drops dramatically to 25 percent and the Democrat only slightly to 36 percent, while 15 percent would back the Tea Party candidate.

It strains the imagination to think that there are still 36-39 percent left that would still vote for a Democrat yet at the same time this data shows it’s the GOP’s race to lose and a right leaning candidate won’t fly (again).

In light of this data, loyal readers, who do you think is our (Wo)Man?

This entry was posted by by Johnny Roosh on Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 12:50 pm and is filed under Campaign '10, Campaign '12, Conservatism, Republicans. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Trouble with a Tea”

  1. Dog Gone Says:
    March 24th, 2010 at 1:08 pm

    here’s another wrinkle to consider.

    Should we return to fusion style voting, as is the case in something like 8 states, and as used to be the case in Minnesota – in fact, a Minnesota case is a landmark one on the topic.

    Fusion voting allows more than one party to support the same candidate.

    So, a candidate could for example run, both as a tea party candidate AND a GOP candidate.

    Given that other candidates than those of the Republican and Democratic parties drew something like 15% to 18% in previous election cycles, and that the end of fusion voting in most states was promoted by the two largest parties acting together cooperatively…….now might be the time to undo that relatively recent ban on fusion voting.

    So [JR] – do you think this is something the Tea Party might want to consider?

  2. nerdbert Says:
    March 25th, 2010 at 12:02 am

    JR, 40+% of the country doesn’t pay income tax, so why are you surprised that almost that same percentage votes Democratic?

  3. Badda Says:
    March 25th, 2010 at 11:01 am

    It’s far too early, Roosh… however, if you think about who might be good for the Tea Party folks consider who ever is running against the incumbent.

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