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Harvard: Tea Party Movement Is Alienating Young Voters

WASHINGTON (AP) — The tea party is failing to woo young voters despite a loose structure that could make it easier for those under 30 to achieve leadership roles, analysts and political activists say as the grass-roots movement prepares to flex its muscles in midterm elections.

A survey released Oct. 21 by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics showed that only 11 percent of those 18 to 29 consider themselves supporters of the tea party, and analysts say the leaderless movement’s ties to social conservatism and rhetoric in favor of an earlier America are hampering its appeal.

Despite widespread voter anger ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, the tea party has been a hard sell to young voters because many equate joining with embracing conservative social values, said Peter Levine, director of CIRCLE, a Tufts University group that conducts research on the political involvement of young Americans. He said this holds true even for those who would otherwise identify with the party’s call for stricter fiscal conservatism.

“A lot of young people, whether it’s from the media, professors or other sources, come to the opinion that the tea party is just a bunch of right-wing extreme radicals, racists — whatever,” said Patrick Kelly, a tea party activist and freshman at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Ill. “That’s the biggest deterrent.”

Tea party supporters want to open the door for young voters, and FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe said the movement can win over those under 30 by placing them in leadership roles. FreedomWorks was founded by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, and has fueled much of the movement’s growth.

“More young leaders begets more young participants,” Kibbe said. He said that young voters are tougher to organize but that the tea party can engage them through things they enjoy. “The tea party is different,” he said. “We have music, we have fun, we do protests. It’s a different set of activities than your typical, canned Republican stump speech that was driving people away in droves.”

Matthew Segal, the 25-year-old executive director of the nonpartisan Student Association for Voter Empowerment, said the tea party’s opposition to government action also turns off young voters. “The tea party is based on an anti-government premise, and young people are the most trusting constituency of government,” said Segal, whose Washington-based organization promotes electoral participation by students.

And while the tea party often seems to be recalling earlier times, with rhetoric harkening back to the Founding Fathers, American youth don’t always share those sympathies. Even the movement’s name refers to an insurrection more than two centuries ago, notes Christopher Kukk, who teaches political science at Western Connecticut State University.

“It’s all about keeping America, preserving America, not changing America,” Kukk said. Young people, he said, are “talking about changing America.”

Many young voters also recoil at the tea party’s homogenous racial makeup. According to the Pew Research Center’s October political survey, 85 percent of registered voters who agree with the tea party are white. Just 2 percent are black.

“The young generation is just by the numbers the most diverse generation in American history,” Levine said. “You can‘t get that much purchase on this generation if you look like you’re all white.”

Supporters agree that a large part of the party’s problem with youth is perception. Although some tea party groups are libertarian and don’t espouse socially conservative values, voters and the media rarely make that distinction, said Emily Ekins, a UCLA doctoral student who studies the movement’s different, and sometimes opposing, philosophies.

Some tea party backers also note the generational gap when it comes to all the talk about history. Joel Pollak, a tea party-endorsed Republican trying to unseat Democrat Jan Schakowsky in Illinois’ 9th Congressional District, said young voters’ lack of Cold War memories prevents them from recognizing the threat that overreaching government policies pose to American freedom.

“Young people today grew up with very little knowledge of communism and socialism,” the 33-year-old Pollak said.

Still, observers see an opportunity for a third-party group to make headway. More than 40 percent of voters under 30 don’t identify with a major political party, according to Harvard University’s October poll.

“There is room for an independent party to rise up and grab young people,” Segal said. “If the tea party numbers don’t show that, then they clearly aren’t resonating with young voters.”

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  • BadgerBenson
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:59pm

    Not so much an issue of youth directly, but rather what youth are susceptible to – indoctrination by media and education. Dazzled by lofty fluff filled inspirational messages. Style over substance. I think if the media and education monopoly were put into check most youth would do a 180.

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  • MCGIRV
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:56pm

    F%#k Harvard!

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  • JEANNIEMAC
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:29pm

    Harvard is a hot bed of liberalism. Obama apparently was a student there, and was editor of the Harvard Law Review. Strangely enough, he apparently did not write any papers, as was usually done by an editor. But, I digress.
    Any study done by Harvard is suspect.

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  • thepatriotdave
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:28pm

    Holy cow, talk about a hit-job on Tea-Party people. This entire article was a worthless read. First they say we want to throw Grandma out in the streets and take away her Medicare, then they try to convince people we hate young people. If there is any truth to the young folks not being drawn to the Tea-Party its because of the Marxist bull-crap that is taught in our schools and their teachers trying to scare them away from Tea-Partiers. Besides, who do think the kids are gonna flock to? Those of us that preach personal responsibility, or those that want to legalize pot and tell them they never have to work.

    From now on I would apreciate you warning us that the following article may possibly kill-off brain cells.

    PatriotShops.com

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  • Midwest Belle
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:21pm

    The young haven’t learned our real history – they have no idea what it means to be a TEA party activist. I blame it on our leftwing academia. THe kids don’t LEARN anything but leftist crap.

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    • BRAVEHEART
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:41pm

      This is very true, the schools have become “Change Agents” for left wing progressive nonsense.

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  • CaptainSpaulding
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:18pm

    70% of us are tired of living the way the other 30% tells us too.

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  • BRAVEHEART
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:18pm

    Besides being deceived by Historical Revisionist – those who rewrite history to support their liberal and socialist views – many young Americans have been bombarded continuosly with liberal socialist policy and propaganda from every social institution possible. Including the schools, churches, colleges, and especially the main stream media. Basically being brainwashed by teachers ministers politicians and liberal media communist.

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  • jacquecustard
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:14pm

    Another bunch of elitists who think they know everything when in reality they know stuff all about the real world. More divide and conquer from Barry’s the lecturers book smart team.

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  • leftylemn
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:02pm

    Many young voters also recoil at the tea party’s homogenous racial makeup. According to the Pew Research Center’s October political survey, 85 percent of registered voters who agree with the tea party are white. Just 2 percent are black…….That’s funny the numbers of blacks in the tea party mirriors the percentages of blacks in total U.S. population numbers. So where is the problem? The 2% number is incorrect. The correct number is 10% minority tea party support.

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  • THE FIXER
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:58pm

    I wonder how “young people” would choose if they were asked which values they most agree with, progressive or conservative, if they weren’t labeled for them. Just ask them if they prefer to live in a society where each individual is responsible for their own welfare and behavior, or a society where it is assumed that everyone must be directed in every aspect of their lives so they can’t go wrong.

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  • HippoNips
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:57pm

    Yes, the young tend to be liberal and dumb. I was young , liberal and not educated at one time too.
    Most people grow out of acne and liberalism. The young people of today are no different.

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    • vennoye
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 1:43am

      You are right!! I remember the first time I was old enough to vote, I let my Dad talk me into voting a straight Democrat ticket….first and last time…!! I probably cancelled out his vote in every election after that. Unfortunately today’s youth are going to have to become much more knowledgeable faster than we did because conditions for them are so much worse. You learn fast when you get out of college and can’t find a job.

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  • S G Applebee
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:56pm

    Lets face the facts, most young people are spoon-fed liberalism throughout their educational experience. They’ve been taught that society OWES them, and the only way to collect is to vote for Democrats.
    Tea Party people promise them NOTHING except the FREEDOM to earn their own way.
    In essence, young people have been fooled into believing they can have SECURITY without having FREEDOM, which is of course, a LIE!
    If you know any young adults, have then watch these two short videos and help them begin to see the truth. And then, have them watch a few more.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSmZDCeqUyE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wd9ufxnOHA

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  • Resolved
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:50pm

    I’m 24, and despite the attempted indoctrination, I had parents that made certain that I learned to think for myself. I know my history, not because of any public schools, but because I decided to go research it myself. Because of that, I have what I believe to be a moral obligation to support this return to a more constitution oriented America. History compels me, the facts compel me, and morality and ethics compel me.

    The Younger Generation has been bought with rhetoric. It’s not wrecking capitalism in favor of socialism, it’s “saving the environment.” It’s not redistribution of wealth, it’s “Helping the poor.” This farce has to stop, beginning with this November.

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  • firex1204
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:49pm

    Schools need to start teaching the truth about our history.My kids go to Catholic school and the still teach the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and along with my teachings they are more likely to be at a tea party rally then any liberal rally. I also have a 6 yr old who already knows our history.I teach him something new everyday. He also watches Glenn Beck with me and learns alot. These kids only think about social issues because thats all they’re taught. This has to change.

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  • Netizen Kane
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:47pm

    No it’s not. Conservative youth can rock! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttwNh_O_Htw

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  • Mitsy
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:43pm

    I’m between the ages of 18 and 29 and I support the Tea Party movement. I grew up in ultra-liberal New York City and I’ve tired of liberalism and its values being shoved in my face at every turn.

    In the 60‘s and 70’s, liberalism was the counter-culture to conservatism. Liberalism has become the culture. Hopefully, conservatism will become the new counter culture.

    Most young people reject social conservatism because conservative values stand in the way of their “party” lifestyles of drugs, drinking, casual sex and shirking responsibility. When I was a young teenager, I was in favor of the “if it feels good, do it” mentality. Now that I’ve been there, done that, and I’ve gotten past it and am a normal adult.

    Perhaps I’m just speaking anecdotally, but I’ve noticed that my peers are more moderate to conservative than this poll seems to indicate. People have just gotten tired of political-correctness, especially those of us who were raised with it.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:52pm

      Excellent!!!

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    • Goldenyears22
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:57pm

      Do you think the people who teach the same old marxism, liberalism year after year do not really know what the world is like? They are lost in their elitist bubble and think they have the answer for everyone. My feeling is “Go away, enough of you people cramming your liberal philosophy in our faces.”

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    • Zero Tolerance
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:05pm

      100% ON Misty !….
      We can further Educate you from Experience and our educated Membership.
      Please clik and save our URL which will launch next week. You‘ll find much common sense and it’s people in your Age group that will be the SUCCESSFUL Leadership of America…

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:10pm

      You get it MITSY .. the 60‘s 70’s Radicals are now “the man”. We who are TEA are the “counter”. I too have noticed that my son and his friends are conservative … they are 20 – 30 year olds … I don’t think that Harvard or other Ivy League schools are in touch with the mood of the country — especially the young adults.

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    • Agentuntomyself
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 1:19am

      I think that a lot of this big conservative/tea party revival has to do with that fact that the children of the radicals from the 60‘s and 70’s have grown up and are adults now(myself included) and are disgusted with some of the havoc that movement wreaked. I was lucky to have parents who retained their conservative values in the midst of all that, but I remember many of my friends had parents who acted like selfish, self-involved teenagers who believed all of that moral relativistic crap that liberalism espouses. These kids grew up with it and recognized the empty hypocrisy and want something more solid; more real and meaningful for themselves and their own families. Radicals from the 60′s were a bunch of spoiled post-war baby-boomers with too much time on their hands who wanted to rebel against mommy and daddy’s too-restrictive morals and expectations. Their children are now rebelling against mommy and daddy’s lack of morals, permissive parenting, and total lack of personal responsibility.

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    • Colonial Revolutionary
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 6:50am

      Misty Right On. To quote Savage “Red Diaper Doper Babies”. That is who is running the country today.

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    • CitizenVetUSA
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 2:49pm

      Congratulations………..you have thought for yourself seeking real essence, Truth.

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  • Awakenow
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:42pm

    Yea right cram their heads full of Marxism and Socialism and then blame us when they don’t understant freedim, liberty and constitutionalism. It must bother the ellites to become irrelevant.

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    • 123gone
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 5:57pm

      Awakenow – Nothing wrong with venting your anger, but I gotta tell ya, Freedom and Liberty isn’t taught in school; it has to be lived !! Kids of today may not know what it is, but they will damn well recognize it when it is taken from them. So many, of these kids have been spoiled by freedom.
      “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
      Thomas Jefferson:

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  • Sardu
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:37pm

    Screw young people. No one should be allowed to vote unless they are 30 (at a minimum). Military excepted.

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  • Patriot Z
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:26pm

    I agree we need more young peopel but there is only so much we can do. im 34 so not old. its difficult. young people are told from day 1 that they must be supported in everything and they are controlled. its a comforting feeling knowing that mom and dad are there to take care of you when you fall. so its difficult to convice the younger people that when the gov does this tis not out of love like mom, but because they want to control you and own you. they do not understand that there is cost in everything and sooner or later you will have to pay something. when i was 5 yrs old, 10 seemed like a million yrs away, when i was 10, 18 seemed like as well 34 was old to me then. so how do we convice someone who cant even picture that far ahead that they are making a grave eror?

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    • 123gone
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 5:35pm

      Patriot – The bottom line is: You can’t. But the great thing about American kids is, they’re not stupid. They’ll rebel against anything, just like many of us did before you were born. Now, unlike kids that have grown up elsewhere, these young Americans know what Freedom is, and when they get a taste of a real represive society, they will stand up and kick ass. These are American kids; They will talk trash and act like jerks, but when push comes to shove, they’ll make you proud.

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  • Sledgehammer
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:24pm

    Most of these young people, are more like the teaparty than they think! There has been so much anti this, anti-that crap put out there, it made them stand back and afraid to ask real questions! I again, refer to the twenty some things I work with, we are making a big differance! Let them know even if the republicans win, we will keep the pressure on, it’s about results.

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  • Star Spangled
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:23pm

    Young people ? Most of them are too young to remember the America WE want to restore !
    Schools don’t teach enough American history , these young people don’t know their history .

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    • Goldenyears22
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:52pm

      And these young people go to college under socialist marxist professors who fill their brains full of untruths. It is hard to think how we can ever get our nation back with young people coming up who are so full of Marxism from these so-called uppercrust colleges. We have to somehow turn all this around and get some conservative people in teaching our youth. They are not given a chance to make comparisons of which is best. Even in the high schools there are far too many socialist and marxist teaching our youth. Yank them out of those classes if you find they come home spouting the marxist philosophy. I had to take my child out when he came home running down our nation.

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    • american1st
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:45pm

      i saw a young person quote Marx’s “from each to each” line and he didn’t even know it was from Communism, they get them indoctrinated well now a days….

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 12:18am

      Was that the America where all the races were separate – had their own neighborhoods and schools (and separate drinking fountains) – was that the America when women and blacks couldn’t vote? Or was that the America where the races all went to separate churches or do you want to go back to when the Puritans hung witches? Just checking on how far back you want to take us! http://maboulette.wordpress.com

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    • G.W. Dobbs
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 1:09am

      Goldenyears22, The whole culture of a “Christian Nation” has been stolen from us right under our eyes. The children have been taught to DENY Christ by removing the TEN COMMANDMENTS, the PLEDGE with “One Nation under God”, the Holy Bible, Christmas and all references to God. The result has been SIN in Denial of God and ALL HE HAS SAID.
      From WORLDNETDAILY.COM: “Be afraid ACLU. Be very afraid. Morris packs The Christian Life and Character with page after page of original source material making the case that America was founded as a Christian nation. The evidence is unanswerable and irrefutable. This 1000-page book will astound you and send enemies of Christianity into shock. Keep in mind that it was published in 1864 and has been out of print for more than a century”.

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    • Buttercup
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 1:22am

      Walkwithme1966: No, it’s the America that remembers when we were actually afraid of communism and socialism, because they were BAD, BAD, BAD and not just cute t-shirts. 1966 — Is that the year you were born? If so, then you missed quite a bit — like the Berlin airlift, the Hungarian revolution, the A and H-bomb testings,China bombing Taiwan and Formosa, hiding under your school desks during air raid drills, the draft calls, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Adolf Eichmann trails, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, desegregation, the Cuban missle crisis, or just being scared witless that one day you’d wake up under a dictatorship — and now you realize your mother was right when she said all those years ago, “It’ll be the intelligentsia that will bring about the downfall of the US.”

      That’s also the time when families ate together; Dad was home from work at 5 PM; Mom would be home when you came through the door at 3:30 PM from school; when kids actually learned history, geography, math, science, and reading even though there were 55 in a classroom; when you could pray in public schools openly; when Sundays were actually a day of rest and worship; when we read the Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew; played outside with our friends until after dark; played paper dolls and used our imaginations; rarely ever heard swearing in public; women were respected because they acted like ladies and men were brought up to be gentlemen. Yeah, you missed that, too.

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    • ozz
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 2:33am

      @walkwithme1966 No That would be the America that had no income tax, no property tax, A corporation had to prove it was good for the people before it could get a charter, no one told you what you could and could not do on your land, the Bible was a school textbook, what the average person could save in 5 or 10 years could pay for the land to build a house, your word actually had value, divorce was virtually unheard of, murderers were hung, it was safe to walk down the streets at night and sleep with your door unlocked. An America before the ******* ….. oh I meant people like you Walkonme1966

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    • fatpatriot
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 6:23am

      @walkwithme1966 Your points are at the least uninformed nonsense and at the best mindless talking points from your circle of friends. The separations that you so blithely put forth were actually the machinations of the Democrat Party starting in the 1850′s. The Democrats fought tooth and nail against the reforms put forth by Lincoln et al, continuing into the 20th century when after Civil rights began to be an issue they fought just as hard to maintain the Jim Crow laws. By the way these Jim Crow laws were what propagated the separate water fountains, bathrooms etc…. Please know what you are talking about before spouting off.

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 11:56am

      @walkwithme1966 — Personally I think only landowners should be able to vote, regardless of race, religion, or gender. People that don‘t own any real estate don’t have any skin in the game and thus, SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE.

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  • 13thGenerationAmerican
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:18pm

    The tea party is loaded with fear mongers driven by people who are basically a bunch of grown up narrow minded bigots who are afraid of their own shadows.

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    • Barry Soetoro
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:24pm

      187th Generation Kenyan here and make no mistake, I’m inclined to agree.

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    • Caffeinated Texan
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:26pm

      13thGenerationAmerican said:
      “The tea party is loaded with fear mongers driven by people who are basically a bunch of grown up narrow minded bigots who are afraid of their own shadows…”, it says so right here in the democrat party talking points handbook.*

      *Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental.

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    • teahugger
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:27pm

      oh yeah??!!!

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    • Sledgehammer
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:30pm

      Hey new comer, When your people came here, many of you starved to death, my people could have let you all die! But in the words of late great John Belusi, But NOOOOOO! we had to feed you, teach you how to survive the stange new elemets! Did we screw up? Yes and no. We would never have stepped on the moon. So what do you say Ace, give it an honest chance.

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    • Buck Bagaw
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:33pm

      13thdegenerate has to stop sucking on his dirty socks, it clouds his powers of perception.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:38pm

      Yup, we fear what America will become if current trends are not changed (AKA: United Socialists of America.) If you want to call sticking to constitutional fundamentals narrow minded, well, you got me, ya *****!! And as far as bigots are concerned,,,,,,,I don‘t think Sharpton’s a tea partier…..and you sound like the one who’s afraid of the shadows…..

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:50pm

      @13thGen…

      Proud son of a Indian mother and a American Father; Proud grandson of an Marine Veteran of WW2 and Proud to live FREE in the Greatest Country this World Will EVER KNOW!!!

      God Bless America and Her People, along with the Soldiers who keep her FREE!!!

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 12:13am

      I sort of agree with you – I have yet to hear anything from the TeaParty that makes me want to join their cult – oh, I mean group!! http//maboulette.wordpress.com

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    • ozz
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 2:09am

      @13thGenerationCommunist = ******* that makes up “ ”facts“ ”
      @ walkonme1966 = incapable of critical thinking so spews ******* talking points all day.

      You are unwelcome here go back to the HuffsPaint post where you will be surrounded by like minded coolaid drinking zombies, or at least set down the crack pipe before you type.

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    • Colonial Revolutionary
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 6:44am

      @Walkwithme1966 or should I say Maboulette. Go back to your liberal blog http://maboulette.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/the-blaze-com/.

      You have been exposed.

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    • BehindBlueEyes
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 9:17am

      @Buttercup
      Well spoken. I do remember and miss those days.

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    • GOTT-EM-MAUSER
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 5:09pm

      @ WALKWITHME,

      Don’t sweat it, I could never be a TEAPARTYER because I’m too EXTREME. You could never be one either, YOU ARE a COMMUNIST. But no worries mate, there are millions of us that have never been within 10 miles of a TEAPARTY anything. We’ll just continue waiting for you COMMUNISTS to make your FINAL SCREWUP, and then we’ll do what has to be done.

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    • Robert W
      Posted on November 2, 2010 at 4:00am

      ahh… the brain surgeon posts again. Get outa your moms basement, put your pants on and wipe the cheetos crumbs off your belly.

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  • Fuzzy
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:16pm

    Ahh yes. Another Harvard survey, objective and in search of the truth. No one needs a Harvard degree to understand that the Tea Party is a powerful politcal force, and it is quite natural for a far left liberal university such as Harvard to make up fake surveys to reinforce the notion to all the drones out there that the Tea Party is not supported by younger voters.

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    • Buck Bagaw
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:30pm

      Amen Fuzzy. But you do need a harvard degree to pursue a political career along liberal/socialists lines.

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    • AUTHOR22
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 9:28am

      walkwithme1966

      YOu say you don’t see any reason to join the Tea Party Movement –Well here’s a reason — WE’RE ALL AMERICANS. WHITE, BLACK YELLOW BROWN AND RED. WE ALL BELIEVE IN THE CONSTITUTION AND THE LAW.
      On the other hand, the liberals want to trash the constitution and force their will on to the people they asr supposed to be serving.

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  • Laus Deo
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:16pm

    Hmm.. Maybe indoctrination starting at kindergarden would work. We could use human rights and the environment as the candy coating… Oh wait, someone’s already beat us to that one

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:41pm

      How about this kind of indoctrination…TRUTH. Teach the kids to make their own mind up as they grow, encourage them to look into matters themselves (such as the arts, science, etc) and to develope these interests in addition to efficient schooling.

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    • what4
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:54pm

      Tea Party is getting the smart kids, not the little Sheeple!!

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    • Laus Deo
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:03pm

      Don’t miss the sarcasm, please.. This road we’re on right now seems to be getting rougher every day. I frequently debate these people and they truly believe they are intellectually superior to knuckle-draggers like us. Early indoctrination is the first thing we must dismantle.

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    • 123gone
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 2:35pm

      Laus Deo – All of the brainwashing in the world could not prepare these kids to fight the fight, they would have to face, if they ever tried to force a Socialist agenda on real Americans.

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  • Barry Soetoro
    Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:12pm

    Tea Party: Young voter movement is alienating Harvard.

    Make no mistake, this has turned out to be a spooky time of year for myself and my progressive socialist democrats and I’m not talking about Halloween, but I’m not afraid. Despite the best efforts of the Teaparty, my mindless minions of brain dead zombies are ready to slink to the voting booth on Wednesday November 3, and hammer the final nail into the coffin of America’s economy and freedom… wait, what’s that? http://www.votesmart.org Oh crap!!!

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:40pm

      The Progressives and Socialists control the colleges and universities such as Harvard for the most part, so of course they will attempt to fill the younger generation minds full of unworthy mush. The land has awaken, and it will take time to change things around, so do not be discouraged, it will happen so long as we do not go back to sleep.
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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:40pm

      Hahahahaha, like.

      http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • Anarcho Capitalist
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:15pm

      This article knows nothing. Im 26 and most people i know my age fall in line with the right wing of the tea party. They just don’t have the time and money to show up to all the worthless events or donate to all the poorly chosen candidates. That is all.

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    • chazman
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:18pm

      … Harvard … Freshman indoctrination, Marxism 101. Pass, Fail.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:34pm

      Snowleopard, I’ve got you back. You are correct that although the US has the best Universities in the world, they are filled with progressives and socialists. I’ll go further than that, high school, middle school and elemtary schools have been infiltrated with progressives. And they are filling our childrens heads with uniformed socialist mush!

      Obviously I’m not a big fan of Mao or Pol Pot (although he knew that waterboarding was the best humane way to get at the truth and save his country), they understood the danger of liberal intellectualism. Of course I don’t completely agree with their approach – they simply killed the professors and teachers and closed the schools – they at least took action against those who would destroy our country by brainwashing it’s youngest most impressionable minds.

      I’m not sure what actions we should take to shut down those liberal Ivy League professors. But they are destroying our country and I, for one, don‘t want to see my child’s head filled with mush and the country come under absolute despotism because our government run education system.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on October 30, 2010 at 11:52pm

      So lemme get the gist , of what the geniuses @ HahaWard are telling the lower castes
      a k a TEA partiers :

      If we have :

      less white American citizens and more people with suspicious citizenships,
      less patriotism and more weed,
      less love for US prosperity and more love for communism,
      less desire for American superpower and more desire for converting USA into a 3rd world gutter,
      less people who have been successful and more loosers and moochers,
      less taxpayers and more parasites,
      less of people who have changed their communities and more of slogan shouting zombies,
      less older folks with life’s expriences and more of clueless basement dwellers,
      The TEA party movement can be successful,
      atleast according to the same people @ HAHAWard who have fixed our economy, defended our country and generated revenues .
      Sure I’d take their advice :D

      Oh BTW HaHaWard brainiacs,
      there s a party which welcomes loooooosers and moooooochers and parasites and cluless basement dwellers, its called the spooky doooode’s brigade
      better known as
      Democrats
      :

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    • jds7171
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 12:06am

      I have a theorey on this. Conservatives don’t like to be active in politics. They like to live their lives. Especially younger conservatives. They want to watch their sports, play their video games. They don’t get to much into politics untill they get a job, a house and see how much they actually pay taxes. The left don’t tell their younger generation how everything is going to be paid for….except to tax the rich. Us conservatives know that taxing the rich more is wrong because they earned their money. For the people who say what about the people who inherit the money. Well they were already taxed for the money they inherited….the death tax. Once young voters get a real job where they will be paying taxes and not getting it back when they do their taxes they will turn conservative. Unless they are the kind of people who don’t practice what they preach. Imagine if michael moore and obama had to pay the taxes they want the rich to pay.

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    • jzs
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 12:22am

      Cheese, your post says it all. If only we all had your poetic eloquence. Your prose is subtle but descriptive, obscure yet precise, vague yet dense with profound meaningfulnessnes. Superficial and ignorant, devoid of intelligence or education upon first reading, but still the hint of a depth only apparent after a second and third reading. Your genius is revealed after reading your post ten times when only then the Truth can be apprehended by those who lack your immediate insight. Thanks Cheez, for explaining everything to me!

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    • Anarcho Capitalist
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 12:57am

      CHEEZWHIZ
      No thats not what they are saying. Not in the way you put it anyway. What they are sayingis if only you would compromise your believes to the point that the majority of Americans would agree with you then you would become a majority and win elections. Nothing else, just elections. Its how the republican party works. Its how the tea party got so big when they decided to cater to the Christian right.

      Basic political concept. If winning is what you want then abandon the reason you want to win.

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    • rebel
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 3:00am

      can someone lead me back to what made the tea party racist in the first place? was it the health care thing? please remind me so i can remember EXACTLY why i’m a racist.

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    • Patriot Z
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 3:59am

      Anarcho Capitalist- and you think we do? If what you say is true then understand that this is it. thoes ‘worthless candidates’ are all you got seperating you from socialism. thoes stupid rallies, the voting etc is the last step we get. the country is going to hell either vote for freedom now or plan on loosing it and having to pick up a rifle to get it back. none of us have ‘the money’ unlike the liberals fest we were not given free food and bus fare etc to go. thoes people at 8/28 had to use all their own money. the fact that they identify with us and do nothing is even worse than being on the other side. Sorry we cannot tune everything and make life like a big game. sometimes you have to find your own insperation and your own reasons.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 6:31am

      It takes 10 years for the young to get their heads straight after going to these commie schools. Hope to see all the dimbass liberals at the voting booth on Wed. Nov. 3.

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    • Colonial Revolutionary
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 6:36am

      @Rebel. We are Racist because they say we are Racist. If you say it enough times it becomes true.

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    • 5
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 8:01am

      So IS OBAMA, REID, PELOSI AND THE REST OF THE LIB/TERDS!

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    • Anarcho Capitalist
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 12:03pm

      PATRIOT Z
      Your right for saying what you did. My post was a downer. But there can be no compromise between good and evil. any compromise is a victory for evil. Don’t get upset with the kids. They are less likely to compromise at this point in life. As they grow older life will slowly chip away at there principles making them into good republicrats or demublicans.
      Acually i think the tea party is the best thing to happen in america during the small 26 years i have spent on the planet. I just know looking back over the last 100 years that there is a fundamental transformation about every 6 to 12 years. They all have gone no where. The principles during every one that where supposed to be brought back into politics where all forgotten and compromised away in an effort for the centrist vote. I don’t have to much hope that the new congress will be all that wonderful. I watched as the republican party has slowly but sherly taken over the tea party. In Idaho they came right out and said they now control the tea party.

      The republicans bug me because they do not think its the bureau that are the problem but the management. As if they can simply be managed in a way that makes it economically viable. They cant and instead of destroying the structure they will simply freeze it till the dems get back in, in 4 to 8 years.

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    • Robert W
      Posted on October 31, 2010 at 5:21pm

      Them tea-partiers are so low brow, wouldnt you say Buffy darling? They dont even get pedicures!

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    • Bayou Babe
      Posted on November 1, 2010 at 10:29am

      Rebel, Progs masquerading as academics and pundits firmly believe that limited government, tax cuts and concomitant spending cuts disproportionately affect minorities adversely. Given TEA Partiers are committed to such limits, Progs feel perfectly justified in calling the TEA Partiers racist.

      TEA Party-supported candidates, like Ryan Frazier (R-CO), Star Parker (R-CA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Allen West (R-FL) and others, are deemed “useful idiots” and/or turncoats.

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    • DirectlyUnPCman
      Posted on November 1, 2010 at 1:33pm

      Keep it about race. Evil white men everywhere. Most of the young like what they hear because they dont understand. They think they are getting something for nothing. They have no idea what they are really sacrificing.

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