Pew Research Center
October 25, 2011
Tea Party Draws More Opposition than Support
About four-in-ten Americans say they support the Occupy Wall Street movement (39%), while nearly as many (35%) say they oppose the movement launched last month in New York’s financial district.
By contrast, more say they oppose the Tea Party movement than support it (44% vs. 32%), according to the latest survey by the Pew Research Center for the People the Press and The Washington Post, conducted Oct. 20-23 among 1,009 adults. One-in-ten (10%) say they support both, while 14% say they oppose both.
Partisanship plays a strong role in attitudes about the two movements. About six-in-ten Republicans (63%) say they support the Tea Party. That jumps to 77% among Republicans who describe themselves as conservative. Just 13% of Democrats support the Tea Party movement, while 64% are opposed.
About half of Democrats (52%) – and 62% of liberal Democrats – say they support the Occupy Wall Street movement. Among Republicans, 19% say they support the anti-Wall Street protests, while more than half (55%) oppose them.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
united… what rubbish….
maybe in the late 1700′s, you were united… but not now….
the COIN divided you…..
unity will save you…
if you allow yourself to be divided then they conquer you….
its like GENGUS KHAN…. his mother took her 5 sons into the mountains and asked each one of the sons to break a arrow in half….
each son done it with ease… THEN SHE ASKED each son, to break 5 arrows at once… NO SON WAS ABLE TO BREAK ALL 5 arrows….
than she SAID….. don’t ever be divided, you are like the 5 arrows bond togeather and as long as you stay togeather, no one will be able to break you….
GENGUS KHAN RULED THE WORLD and the words of his mother were the most wise in his rise to the top…