Report states there are only 67,000 Tea Party members in US

[cbdo2007]

Counting Tea Party activists causes conflicting numbers
Posted: April 22nd, 2010 06:27 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Shannon Travis

Washington (CNN) – A new report by a nonprofit organization estimates that there are 67,000 Tea Party activists throughout the country, which is at odds with estimates by a handful of conservatives including Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.

Dante Chinni, a correspondent for Patchwork Nation, told CNN that they have determined most of the Tea Party activists reside in reliably Republican districts, rural or agricultural areas, wealthy suburbs and what they call "military bastions" located near U.S. military bases. Patchwork Nation, which was launched by the Christian Science Monitor and funded by the Knight Foundation, arrived at 67,000 by poring over publicly available information to identify people who actually registered with Tea Party organizations.

Chinni told CNN the figure does not include people who may sympathize with or support the Tea Party movement.

"Is this a complete list of everybody? No," Chinni said. "I think … there's probably maybe 10,000-to-12,000 total that we've missed."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/22/counting-tea-party-activists-causes-conflicting-numbers/?fbid=aZzgQx-ka92

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This seems about right based on the reality of people who show up at their protests and stuff nationwide. Of course the Tea Party people and Repubes like to add to that number by saying the number who "support" the Tea Party, which could be defined loosely. They could assume that everyone who voted against Obama "supports" the Tea Party and their general cause.

[FSogol]

1. Can we get them all into a remedial spelling class? Maybe we could use the FEMA camps?

:shrug:

[The Magistrate]

3. Good Idea, Sir....

[tonysam]

2. That's enough to do serious damage to the country

as they are being incited by various scoundrels.

[Mari333]

4. yet the MSM wont cover any other groups who are protesting

corporate whores.

[JBoy]

5. Pffft. Justin Bieber has over 2 million Twitter followers

who are probably just as white, have way more discretionary spending power, and they'll be around 40 years after the last bagger is dead.

Talk to me about power.

[cbdo2007]

10. Now THAT'S enough to do serious damage to the country!

And to my eardrums.

[malaise]

6. Damn they're outnumbered by

Trekkies

[Gold Metal Flake]

7. And each one has a "liberal media" camera pointed at them.

The ratio of corporate media coverage these idiots receive vs. how many of them there actually are is ridiculous.

[emulatorloo]

8. Media is trying to "mainstream" their fringe views for some reason.

I can't quite figure out the game here, but there seems to be a real drive to make these fringe views seem "credible".

[Arkana]

9. Ahahahahahahahaha.

This is what, like .1%?

[bulloney]

11. 67,000? That's about two-hundredths of one percent of the U.S. population.

So, why are they getting so much attention from the MSM?

[myrna minx]

12. CNN should be ashamed for hyping this "movement".

:puke: One expects it from FOX, but CNN has been completely breathless hyping this nuttery.