my connection with the tea party

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That was the case.

I see. It was just a side-track then, when you stated that "Some Tea Partiers are Republicans, Democrats and some are Libertarians".

So, your answer to Eppie's claim ("This tea party, so I read, is mainly backed by a group of billionaires"), is that the existance of a Tea Party makes for more Democratic voters? Is that meant as insinuation that the Democrats might be funding the Tea Party to get more votes?

As it happens, Democratic support has been dropping since around 2008 (see my earlier Gallup link).