Election Day 2010
Middle America’s Tea Party is here to stay
Karlyn Bowman | Financial Times | October 31 2010
When the Democratic party loses control of the US House of Representatives on Tuesday night, as all polls suggest it will, its defeat will revive one of the most heated criticisms levelled at Barack Obama during the 2008 election campaign. Then Hillary Clinton, his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, tore into him for his disdainful tone towards working-class economic anxiety and, in his words, those who “get bitter and cling to guns or religion”. Sadly for Mr Obama this same anxious rebellion has powered victorious Tea Party candidates, who now could harry him for his remaining time in office.
Echoes of the president’s words have been heard in current liberal criticisms of Tea Party activists, who have been dubbed rubes, racists, and religious nuts. Others say they represent a fading remnant of the bastions of white male privilege. But the polls do not support such claims. While Democratic voters do tell pollsters the views of Tea Partiers are too extreme, many independents and most Republicans disagree; that is why Mr Obama is headed for defeat this week…
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