A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 42% of Likely U.S. Voters think the president\u2019s views are closest to their own when it comes to the major issues facing the country. But just as many (42%) say their views come closest to those of the average Tea Party member<\/strong> instead. Sixteen percent (16%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)<\/p>\nThis marks a small setback for the Tea Party from April 2010 when 48% felt closest to the average Tea Party member, while 44% said they had more in common with the president<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On the other hand, it’s right after the full-fledged media narrative-attack over the “shutdown”.<\/p>\n
Thirty-four percent (34%) now believe their personal views are closest to those of the average member of Congress when it comes to the major issues of the day. But slightly more (36%) say their views are closest to those of the average member of the Tea Party<\/strong>. A sizable 30%, however, are not sure.<\/p>\nOpposition by Tea Party Republicans to the president\u2019s national health care law has been blamed for the recent government shutdown, and just 30% of voters now have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party. That\u2019s back to the level seen in January and down from a high of 44% in May after it was disclosed that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Many of the “unfavorables” are likely never voting conservative under any circumstances.<\/p>\n
The GOP has to present\u00a0an alternative\u00a0<\/em>to the Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tea Party are extremists that the American people refudiate. Right? Well, not so fast\u00a0(emphasis added): A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 42% of Likely U.S. Voters think the president\u2019s views are closest to their own when it comes to the major issues facing the country. But just as many (42%) say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39377,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39366\/revisions\/39377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}