Poll: Tea Party Out of Step With America

In this Oct. 18 AP file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks to the crowd during the kickoff of the nationwide Tea Party Express bus tour in Reno, Nev. Tea party backers fashion themselves as “we the people,” but polls show the Republican Party’s most conservative and energized voters are hardly your average crowd. According to an Associated Press-GfK Poll this month, 84 percent who call themselves tea party supporters don’t like how President Barack Obama is handling his job _ a view shared by just 35 percent of all other adults. They’re about four times likelier than others to back repealing Obama’s health care overhaul and twice as likely to favor renewing tax cuts for the highest-earning Americans. (AP Photo/Scott Sady)

Question: Does the Tea Party express the values of residents of Idaho and the Inland Northwest?