Earlier this month, Gallup released a poll that they said showed that the "Tea Partiers" were pretty mainstream. Gallup found that they were overwhelmingly white (79%), largely conservative (70%), and even include a few Democrats (8%). The rightwing blogosphere went nuts with this poll, saying that it showed they weren't some fringe group of whackos -- they were a mainstream group of whackos. But, when teabaggers wrote in to Gallup Editor in Chief Frank Newport for an "Ask Frank" video, they didn't quite get the answers they would've liked... Although Newport tried like hell to tell them what they wanted to hear.
My favorite part is when Frank says that the difference between the percentage of blacks in the Tea Party and the percentage of blacks in the general population is "not huge." Breaking out the super high tech calculator that I reserve for such advanced and complex calculations, I see that 6% is about half of 11%. I'm not sure how this qualifies as "not huge." Seems to me a 46-point gap can be described as a pretty huge gap. If you won an election by that percentage, it'd be an unprecedented landslide... [CLICK FOR FULL POST]
My favorite part is when Frank says that the difference between the percentage of blacks in the Tea Party and the percentage of blacks in the general population is "not huge." Breaking out the super high tech calculator that I reserve for such advanced and complex calculations, I see that 6% is about half of 11%. I'm not sure how this qualifies as "not huge." Seems to me a 46-point gap can be described as a pretty huge gap. If you won an election by that percentage, it'd be an unprecedented landslide... [CLICK FOR FULL POST]
