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Tea party movement supporters and members of the Republican Party are similar in their views on many political issues, though tea party supporters are more likely to believe that government debt is an “extremely serious threat” to the United States’ future wellbeing, according to a national Gallup poll. These results follow findings from Gallup last week that found that most tea party supporters are Republicans.
According to the poll, the issues that tea party supporters find most dangerous to the United States’ future wellbeing are the federal debt, terrorism and the size and power of the federal government.
Many of the issues that tea party supporters found dangerous were also issues of concern to Republicans polled. In fact, of the 10 issues polled, there were none that had a difference of more than six percent between the tea party supporters and the Republican Party.
According to data from three USA Today/Gallup, 30 percent of Americans polled identify themselves as Tea Party supporters, 28 percent identify themselves as opponents of the movement, and 36 percent say they are neutral to the movement.
“Americans who say they support the Tea Party movement share a common concern about government and its scope, particularly with regard to deficit spending,” Gallup concluded from the data. “Their views do set them apart from those who are neutral or opposed to the Tea Party movement, but hardly distinguish them from supporters of the Republican Party more broadly.”
The results were from polls conducted May 24-25 and June 11-13, 2010, with a random sample of 2,063 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S. The margin of error on the total sample is ±3 percent, while the margin of error for the sample of tea party supporters is ±4 percent.
