the "washington post" did a national poll asking americans whether or not they had ever heard about this tea party movement taking shape on the american right. by october, 2010, americans said they had heard a lot about it, 54% of americans said they heard a lot about the tea party. for comparison's sake, that compares roughly with the percentage of americans right now who say they have heard about those women's marches that took place in protest of the new president donald trump. roughly equivalent. 54%, 57% of americans have heard a lot about that. but check this out. in 2010 at the height of the tea party's power, the proportion of americans who said they supported or leaned towards supporting the tea party was 39%. right now the number of americans who say they support or lean towards supporting the women's marches is 60%. again, that poll was taken in 2010 before the tea party was credited with sweeping the nation in the midterm elections of november, 2010, which brought republicans to power in an