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For the majority of Americans the Tea Party and the Republican party are now synonymous.

Courtesy of the Washington Post:

Views of the Republican Party’s ideological leaning are essentially the same as the tea party.

Forty percent say the tea party is too conservative — about the same number as say the Republican Party is too conservative (43 percent). While 36 percent of Americans say the views of the GOP are “about right,” 35 percent say the same of the tea party.

Views of the GOP and the tea party are virtually the same across all demographics. Fifty-five percent of moderates say the GOP is too conservative, versus 52 percent who say the same of the tea party.

In other words, if the tea party has moved the GOP to the right — and it has — it has done so to such an extent they are now viewed as ideologically very similar.

So while the establishment Republicans are locked in a pitched battle for control of their party with the Teabaggers, the rest of the country sees them as one and the same.

What was it the comic strip character Pogo once said?

This is pretty good news for the progressives moving toward 2014. Now if only we can get that damn website up and running, and manage not to shoot ourselves in the foot, we might have a real shot at gaining some seats and getting this country back on track.

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