Understanding conservative America — in one Venn diagram

[yortsed snacilbuper]

it's worth noting that the vast majority of Republicans belong to neither the tea party nor the Christian right.

link

[Koch Ebola]

1. two circles are missing..

The Corporate circle and the Neo-Con circle

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. You couldn't do this with more than 3 circles.

You'd have regions missing.

[JaneyVee]

2. Doesn't this show majority of Republicans are christian right?

[rogerashton]

3. Because 21% is more than half of 40%?

No -- according to the diagram, some of the 21% "Christian right" are not Republicans.

Anyway -- if they don't get the votes of Christian Right, Tea Partiers, and -- by the way -- white supremacists, the Pubs don't win any elections. So percentages may not tell us all that much.

[JaneyVee]

5. Ok thanks for clarification.

[Blue_Adept]

4. The vast majority may not belong, but they sure as hell enable it

And that's damning.

[Populist_Prole]

8. True. The team player mentality

[pampango]

6. "What's most interesting, though, is how little overlap there is between the driving force of the

Republican Party in the 2000s -- the Christian right -- and the driving force of this decade -- the tea party. And, in fact, the Christian right is actually much more independent/non-Republican than the tea party is, despite the tea party's claims to independence.

As the below chart from the Public Religion Research Institute shows, the group of people who identify as tea partiers is in fact a very small portion of the Republican Party, but it's also overwhelmingly contained within the Republican Party.

We’re guessing plenty of folks think those two groups would overlap more than they do on the above chart."

[onecaliberal]

9. But they still vote for crazy republicans.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

10. A sampling from the comment WP comment section!

Endoxa52

1:12 PM EDT

The Democrat diagram consists of one big circle filled with every godless lunatic in the country.

Randy Rose

12:45 PM EDT

TEA Party stands for Taxed Enough Already. The Democrats want to control your life by giving tax breaks to get you to do what they want. We need to get rid of income tax. Vote for Candidates who support HR 25 in the House and S.122 in the Senate.

Lucy Lastik

12:35 PM EDT

From the diagram, it would appear that 25-30% of the Tea Party, are either independents, or democrats...............yet the Post, in their infinite, and surely non-partisan, wisdom, fails to identify those Tea Party members.

[lame54]

11. but they vote exactly the same way