The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for the 16th of April.

I'm John Dickerson in Washington with David Plotz.

Emily Bazelon is up in her perch in New Haven.

Today we're going to talk about the Tea Party movement, which descended on Washington at the end of a long list of rallies on the 15th of April for tax day.

Then we're going to talk about the Supreme Court vacancy and the latest permutations in that story.

And then finally we're going to talk about the race to space, which is a topic that David is.

Can you tell this is David Plotz's pet topic?

Oh, it's only mildly more interesting to him than the difference between button fly and zipper.

And then we'll have cocktail chatter with a special little wrinkle for this week.

So let's start with you, David.

The Tea Party movement has arrived.

Tax time has arrived.

There's a lot of interest in the power of the Tea Party movement. And so what do you make of all of this?

Well, there's a very fascinating poll in the New York Times on Thursday, on Tax Day, of the Tea Partiers. It's fascinating, I guess, because it is so unfastinating that you discover, in fact, that they are extremely

white. They're very, very conservative. They're much more skeptical of President Obama than

even regular Republicans are. They're much more alarmed about the power of the federal government

than President Obama are is, then Republicans

are, excuse me, they're old, they're not, they're not an economically bad shape, they're heavily

male, and they are, you know, they're who you expected they were. They have, their views on race

seem to be a little bit more unpleasant than,

resentful.

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