I attended the 2009 and 2010 Tea Party Tax Day rallies in Southcentral Alaska. I questioned people attending them. In 2009, I decided once I got to the rally at the park by Lake Wasilla, to poll a few people as to their political affiliation:13 LibertariansIn 2010, I attended both the Anchorage and Wasilla Tea Party rallies. I sought to poll more deeply. I was able to get 63 of over 70 people I polled to provide information:
9 non-partisan
6 Republicans
2 Alaska Independence Party
What Party are you registered in?
Anchorage:
18 - GOPWho did you vote for in the 2008 presidential contest?
16 - Independent/unaffiliated
3 - Libertarian
2 - Democrat
2 - Alaska Independence Party
1 - wouldn't disclose
Wasilla:
12 - Independent/unaffiliated
8 - GOP
1 - Democrat
Total:
28 - Independent/unaffiliated
26 - GOP
3 - Democrat
3 - Libertarian
2 - Alaska Independence
Anchorage:
31 - McCainHow old do you believe the planet earth to be:
6 - Obama
2 - wrote in Ron Paul
1 - wrote in Baldwin
Wasilla:
19 McCain
1 Obama
1 - wrote in Dick Cheney
Total:
50 - McCain
7 - Obama
2 - Paul write in
1 - Cheney write in
1 - Baldwin write in
Anchorage:How would you rate these politicians for the leadership they are exhibiting right now, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being highest (average of all who answered):
17 - billions of years
5 - millions of years
3 - 6,000 years
16 - didn't know or refused to answer
Wasilla:
1 - billions of years
3 - millions of years
3 - in the hundreds of thousands of years
9 - less than 10,000 years
2 - refused to answer
3 - I neglected or chose not to ask
Anchorage:Who, currently active in American political affairs and dialogue, inspires you the most right now:
Palin - 6.2
Obama - 1.8
Begich - .9
Wasilla:
Palin 8.7
Obama - 1.3
Begich - 2.6
Anchorage:Here's my proposed poll for 2011:
10 - Ron Paul
5 - Michelle Bachman
3 - Sarah Palin
3 - Mitt Romney
3 - George W. Bush
2 - Glenn Beck
2 - Ralph Nader
1 - Barack Obama
1 - Denis Kucinich
1 - Alan Grayson
1 - Mike Huckabee
1 - Sean Hannity
Wasilla:
6 - Sarah Palin
3 - Glenn Beck
2 - Michelle Bachman
2 - Ron Paul
2 - Newt Gingrich
1 - Sean Parnell
1 - Mike Huckabee
1 - Bill O'Reilly
1 - Rush Limbaugh
1 - Paul Ryan
1 - Rick Perry
Total:
12 - Ron Paul
9 - Sarah Palin
7 - Michelle Bachman
5 - Glenn Beck
3 - George W. Bush
3 - Mitt Romney
3 - Newt Gingrich
2 - Mike Huckabee
2 - Ralph Nader
...... and so on
April 15 2011 Tea Party Questionnaire:
1. How many tea party events have you been to?I'm hoping to poll at least 100 people this year. Do you have any other suggested questions, or ideas about how to streamline the poll to get more meaningful information, more quickly than how I've got this configured?
2. Are you a registered voter?
3. How are you registered?
4. To which branch of the tea party do you belong?a.Tea Party Patriots
b.Tea Party Express
c. Tea Party Nation
d. National Tea Party Federation
e. Americans for Prosperity
f. FreedomWorks
g. American Tea Party for Jesus
h. The Original Tea Party
5. Do you contribute to a tea party organization?
6. Which one?
7. Do you know who the Koch Brothers are?
8. Which one of these figures inspires you most:a. Ron Paul
b. Sarah Palin
c. Mitt Romney
d. Andrew Breitbart
e. Glenn Beck
f. Michelle Bachman
g. other ________
9. In 2010, in the Alaska US Senate race, who did you vote for:a. Joe Miller
b. Scott McAdams
c. Lisa Murkowski
10. Is Islam a religion?
11. What religion is Barack Obama?
12. Was Barack Obama born in the United States?
13. Who do you hope will be the next US president?
images - top: 2009 tea party rally in Wasilla; bottom: 2010 tea party rally in Anchorage
11 comments:
You might want to see how they feel about getting any government subsidies such as Medicare, Social Security, or Oil fund reimbursement, and thrown in food stamps or welfare payments for fun. I would stick to tax issues because that's what the 4/15 rally is supposedly about.
It might be fun to see if they can name the three branches of government.
Considering the measly turnout at the D.C. Tea Party rally last week (around a hundred people), it is quite possible that there will NOT be 100 people for you to poll.
What if they held a Tea Party rally and nobody came?
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This is Wasilla. They will come. Not so sure about Anchorage.
Ask them if they think the earth is round or flat.
Seriously- ask if the earth orbits the sun or the other way around.
Maybe ask some educational policy questions. Do you favor public funding for public schools; school vouchers etc.
Possibly you could ask some kind of open ended question concerning money in politics. Is secret funding good? Is unlimited funding good? How might this new supply of money affect tax policies?
Ask them to supply the most important government conspiracy that needs to be exposed or stopped.
Q what websites do you read?
Q Do you have any progressive friends?
Q What is your opinion of the ADN
Q Is Israel evil?
Ask them if they realize that the Boston Tea Party was a protest about a corporate TAX CUT.
Ask them what they read- if anything.
"Ask them if they realize that the Boston Tea Party was a protest about a corporate TAX CUT"
How about making it a multiple choice question?
Was the original Boston Teaparty to
a. Protest thug unionized dock workers who had been influenced by marxists
b. Protest korans being smuggled into the U.S. in large bags of tea
c. Protest that taxes on large multinational corporations had been lowered too far
d. Just cause trouble- small business owners had been influenced by community organizers to have an illegal protest
e. None of the above-fill in their own answer.
1. Who has more power in America, the 1,000 most wealthy or the poorest 50,000,000?
2. Do you feel safer now that we have won the war on terror?
Love these questions? Anyone want to come with on the 15th and help?
I'm not exactly local, so I can't help you.
It's such a good idea I'm thinking about doing this myself in my area.
Where was the Wasilla tea party picture taken? Is that Wasilla Lake? And aprox how many people do you think attended?
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