PJTV Rolls Out Weekly Tea Party Poll

54% of respondents and 31% of Democrats support the movement

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tea Party TV, which covers all things Tea Party and is produced by PJTV, today unveiled its weekly Tea Party tracking poll, adding a research component to its coverage.  The PJTV/Pulse Opinion Research nationwide survey of 1,000 likely voters revealed that 54 percent of respondents support the Tea Party movement and 48 percent would vote for a candidate who is supported by the Tea Party movement, as opposed to 39 percent who would not.

"The Tea Party is a fascinating phenomenon that can only happen in American politics," said Roger L. Simon, CEO of Pajamas Media.  "Inspired by the actions of our Founding Fathers, members of the Tea Party movement have circumvented the Mainstream Media and have taken their grievances directly to the people.  As we approach the upcoming election, the Tea Party's influence is yet unknown, but by tracking and reporting nationwide attitudes toward the movement, we hope to better calculate the strength and power of this truly American movement."

The study will both track attitudes toward the Tea Party as well as take a weekly snapshot of varying top issues regarding the movement.  Additionally, Tea Party TV is launching a corresponding show featuring Vik Rubenfeld, a 20-year veteran to the polling and market research industry and founder of Rubenfeld Research Associates.  The weekly video will offer viewers a brief, yet in-depth, analysis of the polling results, observing trends, singularities and interesting nuggets of information.  The full crosstabs will be made available to PJTV subscribers, as well.

Poll Highlights

• 54 percent support the Tea Party movement, while 41 percent oppose.
• Of the 54 percent who support the Tea Party movement, 52 percent do so privately.
• 31 percent of self-identified Democrats support the Tea Party movement.
• Just 9 percent consider themselves to be a member of the Tea Party movement; an additional 21 percent state they have friends or family who are members.  
• 48 percent are likely to vote for a candidate the Tea Party movement supports; 39 percent are not.
• 55 percent believe the charges of racism are politically motivated, while just 21 percent believe they are based on fact.  

Click here for full survey toplines.   www.pjtv.com/poll

PJTV has been covering the evolving Tea Party movement since it began in February 2009.  For Tax Day 2009, PJTV had over 800 citizen journalists who produced over 100 video reports and 7,000 photos from around the U.S.  PJTV had unique coverage of the first Tea Party Convention in Nashville this spring.  Also, this year, PJTV established Tea Party TV, featuring weekly appearances with Dana Loesch, a well known Tea Party leader in St Louis and radio talk show personality.  On June 25, Tea Party TV was expanded with Tea Party Coast-to-Coast with Stephen Green. The weekly Tea Party tracking poll is a further expansion of the Tea Party TV coverage of this evolving grassroots movement in America.

Methodology

The Tea Party Tracking Study is a PJTV survey.  The telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Pulse Opinion Research on August 1, 2010.  Pulse Opinion Research, LLC is an independent public opinion research firm using automated polling methodology and procedures licensed from Rasmussen Reports, LLC. Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

About Pajamas Media and PJTV

Pajamasmedia.com, a division of Pajamas Media, receives more than 16 million page views per month.  Launched in 2005, it provides commentary and analysis in text, video and podcast form created by correspondents in more than 40 countries.  Its blogs cover politics, government, culture, the economy and finance, national security, the Middle East, media, and education, as well as breaking news and current events. 

PJTV, a division of Pajamas Media, is the first center-right online television network, providing commentary and analysis via video over the Internet.  PJTV's video segments cover politics, government, culture, the economy and finance, national security, the Middle East, media, and education. PJTV's main studio is located in El Segundo, CA, with remote studio locations in midtown Manhattan in New York City, blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., and web cam locations around the world.

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