You Can Lead A Whore To Culture ...

Some day, we won't link to crap we haven't yet read. (Then again, we've now gotten two posts from this, & had the previous story up some time before this will appear. Maybe we should be doing this for all crap we notice. "Quantity is quality!")

One of those queried (The very first one.) by The NYT offers polling-based factoids, two of which include:

3. They tend to be white and older — 87 percent are white and 60 percent are at least 50 years of age.

4. They are NOT uneducated. Forty-six percent have at least a college degree.

So:

3. Yes, true, absolutely. As we noted from mere photo interpretation. Not necessarily a positive, though.

4. Well, there's education, & there's education. (Not sure what recourse pollsters have if someone identifying as a college grad making $100,000.00+/yr. turns out not to be telling the truth.) A 2.0 GPA grad of East Podunk Normal Commuter College w/ a major in Applied Computer Science can still be a low-information voter.

See? You can't make them think:

6. Finally, those with the most positive impression of the Tea Party movement are also most likely to get their news from Fox News — 64 percent say that’s where they get most of their information on politics and current events.

We may be able to get another four items from this. (More fucking work: IT NEVER ENDS!!)

MOMENTS LATER: Having read it all, we'll avoid typing items & advise that it should be read; it's rational, information if not fact based (I. e., of course it has a liberal bias — no one screamed that Obama was a N(wait for it ...)azi (Hah!) so they must be libz.) takes on TP Mania, w/ historical perspective, even. (How is it that George Wallace, H. Ross Perot & their movements are so seldom considered when hands are wringing over the 'Baggers?)