andy kohut, let me start with you. we just heard what these numbers say about what support for the tea party is like right now. what did it look like a year ago around the time of the midterms? >> at the time of the midterm wes had a pleuralty of americans saying they agreed with the idea of the tea party. keep in mind, most people... only about half of the people have an opinion, but among the people who do have an opinion, a pleuralty said "we agree with them." at the beginning of of the year when we asked people "what affect do you think the tea party will have on congress?" most people who had an opinion said "it's going to be a good effect." by august we had 29% to 22% pleuralty saying "by the way, they're having a bad effect." so we've seen a deterioration of the view that they're a positive force here in washington and we've seen fewer people agreeing with them both as you pointed out in the country... nationwide and also in the 60 districts where members of the tea party caucus come from. >> woodruff: andy kohu

and that's the challenge. >> woodruff: pew's andy kohut says one more factor when comparing age groups is race. >> there's a huge racial difference between young americans and older americans. only 59% of the so-called millennials, the younger people are white, nonhispanics. if you go to the older group and it's 90% white, nonhispanics. older people look at the changing face of america and say is this, all of these latinos and asians and immigrants and the way the country is changing a good thing? and a few of them, relatively few a say good thing. the younger people look at these changes and say of course it's a good thing. that's us. >> woodruff: maria says the growth of the latina population presents a political opportunity. >> the one thing that i will tell you will never help is the fearmongering that happens on behalf of the republican party. and frankly the tea party has been very engaged in this, where they talk about quote, unquote, illegals, where they talk about anchor babies, where they talk about electrifying the border fence even if it is a joke as herman cain mentions. >