So much for the cry of the leftists that Tea Partiers are a GOP group. See two recent studies of the Tea Party movement here and another one here.

From The Hill

“Four in 10 Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents, according to a new national survey.”
“The national breakdown of the Tea Party composition is 57 percent Republican, 28 percent Independent and 13 percent Democratic, according to three national polls by the Winston Group, a Republican-leaning firm that conducted the surveys on behalf of an education advocacy group. Two-thirds of the group call themselves conservative, 26 are moderate and 8 percent say they are liberal.”