{"id":2989,"date":"2010-06-02T15:41:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T20:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2017-03-01T17:58:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:58:06","slug":"and-just-who-is-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2989","title":{"rendered":"and just who is the &#8220;Tea Party?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/capitalgainsandgames.com\/blog\/bruce-bartlett\/1768\/tea-party-extremism?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+CapitalGainsAndGames+(Capital+Gains+and+Games+-+Wall+Street,+Washington,+and+Everything+in+Between)&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Bruce Bartlet<\/a> on a poll of Washington State Tea Partiers and their sympathizers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What I think this poll shows is that taxes and spending are not by any means the only issues that define TPM members; they are largely united in being unsympathetic to African Americans, militant in their hostility toward illegal immigrants, and very conservative socially. At a minimum, these data throw cold water on the view that the TPM is essentially libertarian. Based on these data, I would say that TPM members have much more in common with social conservatives that welcome government intervention as long as it&#8217;s in support of their agenda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bruce Bartlet on a poll of Washington State Tea Partiers and their sympathizers: What I think this poll shows is that taxes and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20556,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/20556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}