NO SHOCK HERE – AT 8:27 A.M. ET:  This is why there's a revolt against Washington going on in the country right now.  From The Politico:

Washington elites have little faith that tea party candidates will be able to bring change and say grass-roots conservatives have been the most negative in spreading their message, according to a new POLITICO poll released Tuesday.

Washingtonians involved in the political or policy process believe overwhelmingly that tea party candidates will not “be able to bring change to Washington.” Only 11 percent of D.C. insiders polled said they thought the tea party could bring change, compared with 77 percent who did not.

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The poll, the fourth in the six-month “Power and the People” series, shows a disconnect between how the tea party is viewed in Washington and how it is viewed in the rest of the country.

COMMENT:  The problem, of course, is that Washington thinks it is the country.  This reminds me of the classic New Yorker cover depicting the view of America from New York:  There is Manhattan, looking west to a tiny sliver of land called the United States, and then off to a vast Pacific Ocean.

Sorry to say it, being a New Yorker, but that's the way many people see it here, and that view exists in Washington as well. 

Corrective coming on November 2nd.

October 19, 2010