my connection with the tea party

[kandrathe]

The trouble with a Tea Party, or a Libertarian party is that it tends to create more of a 40% Democrat, 30% Republican, 30% other split.

Where did you get your numbers? That 40% seems awfully high, considering that in 2010 only 31% of all Americans viewed themselves as Democratic.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/145463/Democr...r-Low.aspx

According to the Washinton Post, polls range from 4% to 15% of tea partyers being Democrat.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/t...story.html

With these statistics being somewhat variable over time and elections, I was generalizing. If anything, the more recent trends are that the 40% are between the 30% more extremes.