Democrats and their friends in the liberal mainstream media keep pounding away on their “Tea Party are terrorists” meme in the wake of Friday night’s downgrade by Standard & Poor’s of U.S. credit-worthiness, but the public doesn’t appear to be buying it.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national survey finds a clear majority of Likely Voters rejecting the terrorist label for the Tea Party.
“Fifty-five percent (55%) of Likely U.S. Voters, in fact, say members of the Tea Party are not economic terrorists,” Rasmussen said. “A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 29% believe Tea Party members have been terrorists during the budget debates, while another 16% are undecided. Perhaps tellingly, while 53% of Democrats view Tea Party members as terrorists, 57% of voters not affiliated with either major party disagree, as do 74% of Republicans.”
The picture painted by Rasmussen’s survey results isn’t entirely rosy for the Tea Party, though, as seen in the number of respondents who viewed the movement’s influence on the debt-ceiling debate in negative terms.
“Still, a plurality (43%) of all voters think the Tea Party has made things worse of the country in the budget debates in Congress. Thirty-two percent (32%) say the Tea Party has made things better for America, and 14% say it’s had no impact. Eleven percent (11%) are undecided,” Rasmussen said.
For more from Rasmussen, including the survey questions, go here.
