In April of 2010 The Hill ran a story about a poll that mentioned the following:
Four in 10 Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents, according to a new national survey.
The findings provide one of the most detailed portraits to date of the grassroots movement that started last year.
This number has grown, but CBS finds “Independent” voters who all bash the Tea Party? How can this be? Did the people who were sent out to hunt down these panelists think that in order to be an Independent voter they cannot like the Tea Party? Whatever the reason, everyone of these “Independents” dislike the Tea Party. What we have here is just more media bias as shown below: