The tea party poll

It's probably worth buzzing the NYTimes article polling the tea partiers as it is likely to drive some coverage in the days ahead and shape the way they are presented which is a key battle in their political impact.

This poll may serve to "mainstream" the tea party folks.

(Although I really don't like the way this article is written. "Tea Party supporters are more likely to believe than other Americans..." tends to read more absolutely than the underlying numbers.)

Later: Kurtz does a sort of interesting meandering into the efforts to define the tea party.