States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea Party Movement

Pease, Donald E.

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“…“The election of Obama,” Pease argues, “designated that part of their practical reality that members of the Tea Party could not incorporate. They could not acknowledge the regality of Obama's presidency without undermining the viability of their prior construction of themselves” (:103). If, in fact, disapproval of Obama is the trigger driving Tea Party membership—as we hypothesize in this article—then it is clearly part of a larger backlash that extends beyond ideology and party identification.…”

Section: Tea Party Brewingmentioning

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The Obama Trigger: Presidential Approval and Tea Party Membership

Maxwell

Parent

2012

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective This article utilizes national polling data to identify factors driving Tea Party membership. Methods First, in order to clearly define the Tea Party movement, the researchers will report Tea Party demographics drawn from the Blair‐Rockefeller Poll, which includes a national sample of 3,406 respondents. Second, the researchers will create a logit model to predict Tea Party membership. Results In addition to party identification and ideology, Tea Party membership (10.6 percent of the sample) is impacted both by fiscally conservative policy preferences and by presidential approval. To a lesser degree, age and a belief in biblical literalism are also significant indicators in the model. Conclusions The Tea Party is a distinct entity from the Republican Party and is triggered, not only by current economic attitudes, but, specifically, by opposition to President Obama.

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Section: Tea Party Brewingmentioning

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The Obama Trigger: Presidential Approval and Tea Party Membership

Maxwell

Parent

2012

Social Science Quarterly

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“…The Tea Party began protests in 40 states, only two months after Obama's inauguration. Much of the support for that movement was entrenched in a racialized backlash against Obama (Maxwell and Parent, ; Pease, ; Segura and Valenzuela, ). Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid twice referred to the Republican Party's intransigence to health‐care reform as similar to that of those who fought to keep slavery .…”

Section: The Politics Of Acasmentioning

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Dissecting Perceptions: Exploring the Determinants of Health‐Care Reform Preferences*

Mitchell

Dowe

2018

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. There is significant research regarding health-care preferences in other nations and racial preference for health-care providers. However, minimal research examines health-care reform preferences in the United States. Therefore, this study aims to fill this void by demonstrating how a subterranean agenda, or attitudes toward race that manifest themselves into policy, at least partially drove public opinion regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Methods. Drawing from a nationally representative sample in the 2012 Blair Center-Clinton School Poll, this study examines how various "subterranean" elements in addition to economic, demographic, sociological, ideological, regional, and conditional factors shaped attitudes toward the ACA. Results. Testing multiple hypotheses, we found that a subterranean agenda shaped preferences for ACA along with various other factors, such as presidential approval, individuals' perception regarding the role of the federal government, ideology, feeling toward blacks, feeling toward the Tea Party, and a conditional effect between a person's financial status and feeling toward blacks. Conclusion. Preference for ACA is complex and driven by a multitude of factors. Future studies should explore the dynamics of public opinion over time and other state-level and temporally driven factors that may increase or decrease the probability of individuals supporting health-care reform.

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“…Welfare programs provide a succinct example, as they are considered to be promoters of unethical behaviors. The TPM maintains that government spending underwrites and validates unethical behaviors such as unbiblical co-habitation, pre-marital sex, abortions, and single parent families (Pease 2010).…”

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Dorfman¹

2016

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The conference was multidisciplinary, incorporating historians, philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, cultural studies scholars, critical theorists, literary scholars, art historians, architecture scholars, and activists. The conference addressed problems of resistance, opposition, and social change from perspectives contemporary and historical as well as theoretical and empirical in nature. This is the second of two volumes from the conference. The first, The Politics of Dissent (Óscar Garcia Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen, eds.), addresses contemporary dissent movements. This volume picks up on further themes of aesthetics, memory, intellectual history, representation, senses of time and problems of history. Combined, the volumes should take readers to multiple locales in the field of dissent, offering present-day as well as historically-based critiques. Neither the conference volumes nor the conference itself would have been possible without Óscar Garcia Agustín's and Martin Bak Jørgensen's work as coorganizers, nor that of Sandro Nickel, our other co-organizer. Óscar and Martin's work as editors of the series in which the volumes appear has also been invaluable. In addition to the series editors and the conference's organizers, I' d like to express my thanks to the Department of Culture and Global Studies and the Faculty of Humanities at Aalborg University. Both provided invaluable support for this project, and Department Chair Marianne Rostgaard deserves particular appreciation for her interest in the work. I should also thank Patrick Thomas Casey, copyeditor and style commentator for the project, for his close attention to detail. The work benefitted greatly from his engagement. Of course, no investigative or expressive act is arrived at without the influence of others. For the many friends, family and colleagues contributing to my intellectual development, I am grateful. I offer special thanks to my parents, Eve Kenyon and Bruce Dorfman, for imbuing me, each in their own way, with a spirit of dissent.

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States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea Party Movement

Abstract: The essay “States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea Party Movement” analyzes the recent populist conservatism in terms of the disparate fantasies convoking its disparate constituencies.

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The Obama Trigger: Presidential Approval and Tea Party Membership

The Obama Trigger: Presidential Approval and Tea Party Membership

Dissecting Perceptions: Exploring the Determinants of Health‐Care Reform Preferences*

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