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When this drops into the 20's, will Republican still call it a mandate? I'm thinking yes.

Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...tS3B_blog.html

Almost half of Americans have an unfavorable view of the tea party movement, according to a new CNN poll, a 21 percent rise in that number from January 2010.

In the survey, 47 percent of Americans say they see the tea party in an unfavorable light while 32 percent regard the movement favorably. (The CNN numbers track closely with what the Post found in its most recent poll.)

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A graph by the New York Times’ Nate Silver shows that the tea party has been growing steadily less popular over the past year, while its favorability ratings have stayed steady in the low 30s.

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CNN polling director Keating Holland pointed out that the rise in tea party unfavorability in his poll came primarily among people making less than $50,000 a year.

“It’s possible the drop among lower income Americans is a reaction to the tea party’s push for large cuts in government programs that help lower-income Americans, although there are certainly other factors at work,” Holland explained.

It also could be that as the tea party has become better known and better defined, some people who initially said they liked the movement even though they knew little about it have grown disenchanted as they have learned more.

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When this drops into the 20's, will Republican still call it a mandate? I'm thinking yes.

Thinking, or hoping?

Now the GOP gets a lesson in cliches: This would be the one about playing with fire and getting burned: You appease a small, vocal, volitale part of the company which only understands stubborness and impatience, and when you can't get everything they want done right away, they turn on you.

Nice job. Let's see how they feel next voitng cycle, 'cause their momentum on the Hill is all but gone.