Tea Party Third Party

Rasmussen has put forth another interesting question, they've polled the public on a generic ballot for the Dems and the Republicans...and the mythical Tea Party.

The Republicans came in dead last, behind even undecideds.

In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided.
Among voters not affiliated with either major party, the Tea Party comes out on top. Thirty-three percent (33%) prefer the Tea Party candidate, and 30% are undecided. Twenty-five percent (25%) would vote for a Democrat, and just 12% prefer the GOP.

Among Republican voters, 39% say they’d vote for the GOP candidate, but 33% favor the Tea Party option.
For this survey, the respondents were asked to assume that the Tea Party movement organized as a new political party. In practical terms, it is unlikely that a true third-party option would perform as well as the polling data indicates. The rules of the election process—written by Republicans and Democrats--provide substantial advantages for the two established major parties. The more conventional route in the United States is for a potential third-party force to overtake one of the existing parties.

The Hoffman Effect rolls on.  There's now an active, gaping schism between the party of Bush and Reagan and the party of Palin and Limbaugh.  The GOP is in serious, serious trouble...far more than the Dems.

Right now even a made-up political party is more popular than the GOP.



As in, "these idiots."  They are more popular than the Republican Party.