On the "Tea Party" and Bob Menendez

by: Hopeful

Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 10:09:01 PM EDT

Tom Schaller of FiveThirtyEight.com points us to a new poll out of the University of Washington (tables here). The results are revealing...

White Tea Party supporters are less likely than other whites to think Latinos are "intelligent"  or "trustworthy," though a majority say Latinos are "hard working." Those same white supporters are also less likely to think Blacks are any of those three (especially "hard working"), and they overwhelmingly agree "If Blacks would just try harder they would be as well off as Whites." They say immigrants are "likely to take jobs from people working here," that immigration "should be decreased," and even "all undocumented immigrants should be deported immediately."  

In short, this is evidence, though indirect, that John Wisniewski was right about the Menendez recall:

"These are radical people who chose Menendez off of a list of Democrats because of the sound of his last name."