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Title: POLL: Women are majority of TEA Party
Post by: The Village Idiot on May 04, 2010, 05:36:56 PM

http://www.thefoxnation.com/culture/2010/03/29/poll-women-make-majority-tea-party-ranks

Those who say the tea party movement consists mostly of angry white men will have to recast their stereotyping in at least one regard — 55 percent of them are women, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll.
 
The survey included nearly 2,000 registered voters nationwide. About 13 percent said they are members of the tea party movement that has pushed for more than a year for lower taxes, more liberty, and smaller government. Of those self-identified tea party activists, about 55 per cent are women.
 
The finding won't come as a huge surprise to those who have followed the tea party movement.
 
Women such as Jenny Beth Martin, Amy Kremer, and Darla Dawald hold leading roles in the movement. Sarah Palin and Mississippi congressional candidate Angela McGlowan are among the movement's political icons. And several women-oriented groups, such as the grass-roots networking site SmartGirlPolitics, have emerged to give women a place to voice their opinions and coordinate events.
 
Dawald, national director of the ResistNet site, explained the activism of women conservatives to Politico.com: "You know the old saying that if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy? Well, when legislation messes with mama’s kids and it affects her family, then mama comes out fighting."

Title: Re: POLL: Women are majority of TEA Party
Post by: littlelamb on May 05, 2010, 06:41:59 AM

Very intresting

Title: Re: POLL: Women are majority of TEA Party
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 05, 2010, 06:56:54 AM

I'm certain there will be a "GI Jane" or "Rambette" meme to come out of the Left on this.

Title: Re: POLL: Women are majority of TEA Party
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on May 05, 2010, 01:42:35 PM

babez

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Title: Re: POLL: Women are majority of TEA Party
Post by: Odin's Hand on May 05, 2010, 02:44:33 PM

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Of those self-identified tea party activists, about 55 percent are women.

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Title: Re: POLL: Women are majority of TEA Party
Post by: miskie on May 05, 2010, 07:59:56 PM

This doesn't surprise me - quite a bit of the Tea Party is filled with moderate conservatives and former PUMAs.

I suspect this is what is the most frightening to the Liberals. - which is why the tea partiers are targeted with the same artillery as Team Obama used against HRC. - calls of racism, equating with Klansmen, rednecks, nazis - painting the women associated with it as stupid bimbos (Palin, Bachmann etc) etc. to pull the women out of the tea party...

Sadly for them, it seems this methodology no longer works.

And the simple truth is, if the Democrats lose the edge on women voters, they lose in every scenario.

Title: Re: POLL: Women are majority of TEA Party
Post by: The Village Idiot on May 05, 2010, 08:15:36 PM

It is also a middle class movement, and that is also a reason it scares them.