Appropriatedly named Talking point memo  is issuing a new meme based on a Quinnipiac poll

Poll: Tea Party Is The Home Of The Angry White Woman

Just in time to counteract headlines such as

Obama To Host Pro-Life Dems For Abortion Executive Order Signing

There’s a recount of th long history of this Romneycare passing in WaPo. A small passage about Stupak caught my attention

The women became furious. Voices were raised. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.), a close friend of Pelosi’s, lamented about “all the women we were just throwing under the bus” and called it “a betrayal of all the women that had fought for this for so long.” Pelosi, according to two participants, had tears in her eyes. But she got the votes — that time.

The ladies quickly got over it though and sold the rest of us. Now we have a Supak EO and everyone is happy.

And now, that the women Democrats have been silenced (it’s just symbolic, ya know), the tea party is blamed on women because

55% are women, while just 45% are men.

and only later we get told that this is the usual percentage for all political parties

As for the gender breakdown, the 55% female majority puts the tea party movement in line with other political parties, with the exception of independents. That group is more male than female by a margin of 54-46.

But the opportunity presents itself to nail the bitches, so why not?

I don’t know how many PUMAs joined the tea party – I know some did and that’s when I removed my own affiliation with PUMA to avoid confusion.

I do however see an ugly backlash in this headline, a return to the misogynistic days of the 2008 elections.

Be careful what you wish for. I had just written a fer days ago that being ignored is even worse than being maligned in the last election.

In fact, they talk about it in B0botland and all old slurs are back

. Angry (and I would bet, extremely uneducated) OLDER white women

I would love to see the educational level correlates. I am betting that this is a consequence of many decades of diminishing high school graduation rates during these older women’s lives (and increasing divorce rates) with the accompanying decimation of future opportunities.

Just my hunch, but a good one, I think

9. Shouldn’t that be OLD angry white woman?

And stupid?

Yeah. The gut hatred is back. That coupled with the hint of race bait in the “White” shall drive the November elections. At least from the B0bots POV.

Update

Only a few days later, here comes a Gallup poll demolishing that factoid

Tea Party supporters are decidedly Republican and conservative in their leanings. Also, compared with average Americans, supporters are slightly more likely to be male and less likely to be lower-income.

Gallup has the numbers reversed from Quinnipiac: (second row represents percentages of US adults)

55% men, 45 women.

But then again, all polls are manufactured reality. Gallup just wanted to make a different point than Quinnipiac.

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