Poll: Tea Party candidates come in last

[madmom]

Could the Tea Party movement be losing ground?

Days after Sarah Palin headlined the nation's first Tea Party convention, a Rasmussen Reports poll released today shows that a generic "Tea Party candidate" would come in third in a theoretical three-way congressional contest.

The poll found that 36% of voters would support a Democratic candidate on a generic ballot, 25% would back the Republican and 17% would go for the Tea Party pick. Twenty-three percent of respondents are undecided.

In early December, the same poll showed the Tea Party in second place and the GOP in third. Unchanged between the polls, according to Rasmussen, is that 41% of voters have a favorable view of the conservative movement.

The poll of 1,000 likely voters was taken Feb. 7-8, just after the national Tea Party convention in Nashville. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/02/poll-tea-party-candidates-come-in-last/1

[dmallind]

1. Run anyway guys! It's about time the right got Nadered for once. NT

[YOY]

3. Nader without the justification to boot.

n.t.

[Mari333]

2. why in the world, than, did the MSM cover this like it was the Rapture?

what possible reason was there for that???

[spanone]

4. because to the lazy ass media it was the rapture...

[Mari333]

6. like shark attacks I guess...meanwhile, in Afghanistan......

[spanone]

7. the media hasn't even questioned any of the 'facts' she spewed...they want her sooo bad.

[Zoeisright]

5. We should ALWAYS call them Teabaggers. Not 'the Tea Party'.

Because that's what they first called themselves, because they were too stupid to realize it's a sex term. It's derogatory, which is perfect for those bigoted idiots.

[Winterblues]

8. Since tea baggers are basically extreme conservative Republicans this is not a good poll

It shows 42 percent will vote for a Republican candidate and only 36% will vote for a Democrat.. America as a whole appears a lot more stupid than I first gave credit for and I truly thought America as a whole was on the lower end of the stick.

[KansDem]

9. "In early December, the same poll showed the Tea Party in second place and the GOP in third."

Looks like the GOPaggers and the Teabaggers are duking it out for second and third place!

[damntexdem]

10. Hey, but they still draw more GOPs than Dems.

So by all means, they should run in any and all races.