Gallup: Perry Now Leads Bachmann, Romney by 21 Points Among Tea Party Supporters

◼ These results are based on an Aug. 17-21 Gallup poll, which showed Perry overtaking Romney as the front-runner for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination among all Republicans nationwide. - CNS News

◼ Tea Party Supporters Backing Perry for GOP Nomination - Gallup

T-Phobia

◼ A Gallup poll now has Tea Party supporters outnumbering the whole Looney Left in the USA. And Stan Greenberg, Bill Clinton's pollster, just wrote that Obama better join the Tea Party if he wants to win next year. - James Lewis at American Thinker

Tea Partiers of the World, Unite! A New Spirit is Sweeping Over America!....

Or at least, Tea Party Phobia seems to be upsetting political tummies all over DC.

The other week Veep Joe Biden and Senator Kerry were heard shrieking like a pair of old steam whistles. Joe called the Moms and Pops of the Tea Party "terrorists" --- maybe because they inspire terror in Joe when he sobers up enough to read the latest Gallup poll.

As for Kerry, ole' John told Fox News the media weren't supposed to give equal time to the Tea Party.

A Gallup poll now has Tea Party supporters outnumbering the whole Looney Left in the USA. And Stan Greenberg, Bill Clinton's pollster, just wrote that Obama better join the Tea Party if he wants to win next year.

Ya think maybe those poll numbers have them worried?

Could T-Phobia be spreading?... lots more, and lots of links at the link.

There does seem something very circular about CNN, CBS and NY Times polling showing an increase in negative views of the Tea Party

◼ Report – CNN, CBS and NY Times polls show CNN, CBS and NY Times anti-Tea Party strategy working - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion The mainstream media spends two years calling the Tea Party movement racist, extremist, sexist, terrorist, and hostage takers, and then acts as if negative polling results reflect something wrong with the Tea Party movement rather than their own biased reporting.

Rasmussen: Tea Party Vote Could Kill GOP

◼ In a three-way congressional contest with a tea party candidate on the ballot, the Democrat could pick up 40 percent of the vote. The Republican would get 21 percent support, while 18 percent would opt for the tea party candidate. Just over 20 percent remain undecided... - Newsmax
In the new survey, the tea party candidate draws 28 percent support from GOP voters, while 85 percent of Democrats back their party’s candidate. Just 45 percent of Republicans support the Republican candidate in the three-way matchup. Among voters not affiliated with either of the major parties, 15 percent like the Republican, 29 percent the Democrat and 25 percent the tea party candidate....

◼ A message from the Staten Island Tea Party - June 10, 2011: ...we have succeeded. In a victory no less stunning than last year's congressional race, the Staten Island Tea Party has accomplished the goal of placing hundreds of its members on the Republican County Committee - a large bloc of independent committee members who share tea party values. Our goal? To support those men and women who support those values....

Daily Kos poll suggests Union movement no match for TEA Party

◼ Markos Moulitsas himself is hyping the poll as showing an enthusiasm gap

"...whatever bump in enthusiasm Democrats may have gotten over Wisconsin is not lasting, and what appeared to some to be a revival of unionism in America is not shaping up to be a left-wing counterweight to the right-wing TEA party. Republicans have more intense excitement about defeating Barack Obama than do Democrats have in re-electing him, and the trend is in the wrong direction for Democrats."...