Tea Party More Popular Than Dems, GOP

[The Prof]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/12/16/2154426.aspx

From NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro

Just how angry is the public with the country's two leading political parties? Angry enough that the conservative, libertarian-leaning Tea Party movement is more popular than either the Democratic or the Republican parties, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

The Republican Party maintains its net-negative favorable/unfavorable rating in the poll, with 28 percent viewing it positively and 43 percent seeing it in a negative light.

For the first time in more than two years, the Democratic Party also now holds a net-negative fav/unfav, at 35-45 percent.

By comparison, the NBC/WSJ poll shows the Tea Party movement with a net-positive 41-23 percent score.

Yet looking inside those numbers, more than three-quarters (76 percent) of those who say FOX News is where they get their news see the Tea Party movement positively, versus just 4 percent who see it negatively.

That's a stark contrast to how viewers of the competing cable networks CNN and MSNBC see the movement. More of those viewers have a negative opinion of it (36 percent) than a positive one (24 percent).

Those who get their news mostly from broadcast TV (either NBC, CBS or ABC) are split -- 28 percent view it positively, versus 27 percent who view it negatively.

The entire NBC/Journal poll comes out at 6:30 pm ET.

1. Wow!

2. The Tea Party outpolls BOTH partisans.

3. That's more surprising than "44% miss What's His Name."

4. There IS no Tea Party, after all.

5. What a weird fellowship of winners---Ms Palin, Mr Beck, sellers of astroturf, tantrum-tossing townhall attendees, those who fulminate fishy thoughts, birthers, marchers with all their wingnut signs and posters, Sean and Rush and Fox, all those people Obama told to shut up, the third party people in NY23...

6. THIS is what Obama's brought us to.

7. The only affiliation with a net positive---Lipton lovers.

8. The seismic movement is simply a mass accumulation of Obama's opponents.

9. The future of the Grand Old Party is NOT rhino.

10. Where's Colin Powell?

 

[lizzie]

I'm happy to hear it. I, for one, am tired of being held hostage to two tigers with slightly differing stripe patterns, and am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. If it actually has any traction remains to be seen.

 

[DarkWizard12]

Holy **** wow! Im conservative, and there has GOTTA be something wrong with this poll! Holy ****! Im too shocked to be happy and rub this in! Wow wow wow!