Is Occupy Wall Street a left-of-center version of the Tea Party? Is the Occupy movement likely to exercise a similar degree of political influence?
Pollster Douglas Schoen conducted a survey on the topic and reports the results for Washington Examiner readers:
What we found is that the Tea Party movement — despite having lost support since last year — has more influence, more credibility, and more effect.
Indeed, an in-depth look at the data suggests that on balance, the Tea Party is more representative of a broader constituency of the American electorate.
Overall, 31 percent of likely voters say the Tea Party movement comes closer to their views, while only 19 percent are more in line with the position of the OWS movement.
Voters are favorable to the Tea Party movement by a narrow plurality (42-39 percent) while they have an unfavorable impression of the Occupy Wall Street movement (43-35 percent).
And while one-third (32 percent) of likely voters are supporters of the Tea Party movement, they oppose OWS by a narrow (33 percent) plurality. In terms of effect, the Tea Party movement is more likely to have a greater lasting effect on the political system.
One suspects the Moore Tea Citizens group would respond to these results with the sentiments shared in the video below.
