------ Forwarded Message > From: "dasg...@aol.com" <dasg...@aol.com> > Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:05:49 EDT > To: Robert Millegan <roads...@aol.com> > Cc: <ema...@aol.com>, <j...@aol.com>, <jim6...@cwnet.com>, > <l...@legitgov.org>, <christian.r...@gmail.com> > Subject: Grand Old (Tea) Party -- Old, Fat, Stupid, Southern/Christian SORE > LOSERS >
> from The Atlantic, March 24, 2010 > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36023637/ns/politics-decision_2010/ > > Self-identified Tea Partiers are actually just Republicans and > Republican-leaning independents, Quinnipiac* finds: >> >> >> 74 percent are Republicans or independent voters >> <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36023637/ns/politics-decision_2010/#> leaning >> Republican; >> >> >> 16 percent are Democrats or independent voters leaning Democratic; >> >> >> 5 percent are solidly independent; >> >> >> 45 percent are men; >> >> >> 55 percent are women; >> >> >> 88 percent are white; >> >> >> 77 percent voted for Sen. John McCain in 2008 > > *Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, Hamden, Connecticut > > > > > http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1438 > > Middle Class Must Suffer to Close Deficit, Voters Say 8-1 -- but Don't Touch > Social Security or Medicare > > Although 84%of Americans say the middle class will have to make [greater] > financial sacrifices to reduce the federal budget deficit, more than three > quarters of them oppose raising income taxes on the middle class or limiting > the growth of Social Security and Medicare, according to a Quinnipiac > University poll released today. > > Looking at ways to reduce the deficit, 49% of voters want all budget > reductions through spending cuts, while 4% want it done only through tax > hikes. > > > "Social Security and Medicare are the two largest domestic items in the > federal budget, and between them now make up more than a third of federal > spending. Under current law, these programs will gobble up an even larger > percentage of the budgets in coming years," said Peter A. Brown, assistant > director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. > > "Given those numbers, those who want serious deficit reduction have their > work cut out for them in convincing the public, which seems adamantly opposed > to cutting the programs costing us the most." > ------ End of Forwarded Message
