After sixteen hours from Mississippi, Henry Jaume put his sign in front of the Capitol. Why coming so far? "Politicians do not hear us, he said. Nobody around, or only small groups of demonstrators, seeking, like him, the gathering place.

    The groups were given instructions organizers dispersed. Thursday morning on "Freedom Plaza, near the White House. Thursday afternoon at the Capitol. The night before the Washington Monument. The Tea Party movement is so scattered that even its supporters do not seem to grasp.

 

    On his sign, Henry Jaume, shopkeeper in Picayune, scored what is the watchword of the day: "I am a concerned citizen. Not a member of the Ku Klux Klan or a Nazi. Since that racial slurs were heard in the protest that accompanied the passage of health reform, activists Tea Party are convinced that the left tries to pass them for what they are not. " They try to reduce "Said Jaime Carey, the wife of the merchant. The revenge will come in November, when voting.

    April 15 is called "Tax Day" in the United States. This is the deadline to file its return and pay taxes (the two go together). Last year, the movement of the Tea Party was aware of his growing strength. The 2010 edition has seen tens of thousands of people in the streets of Atlanta, Charlotte, Sacramento. In Washington, the observers counted several thousands to protest the Tea Party Express, on Freedom Plaza. Nothing to do with the flood of September 12, 2009, organized by the Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Populist movements are a recurring phenomenon of American politics. "Especially when the president is a Democrat"Said political analyst Bill Schneider. There was George Wallace, there was Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan. Under Johnson, Clinton .. Nothing new, so, in the Tea Party, except that the utilisaiton the Internet allows them to maintain a decentralized structure.

 

    For the first time, a poll painted a picture of Tea Party supporters. Unsurprisingly, they are white, aged over 45 years, married and Republicans.
Surprise, however, in their assessment of the economy. They are less likely than the rest of Americans feel that their financial situation is "Bad or very bad "(20% against 25%).

 

According to this New York Times poll, only 7% of supporters have a favorable opinion of Barack Obama (as they are 14% of Republicans and 43% of all adults).
And 52% of "Tea baggers" believe that too many cases has been done in recent years "the problems that blacks face.

Last: 63% say they take their information from Fox News (against 46% for Republicans, and 23% all adults combined).