Poll: Americans Blame Partisan Commentators and Tea Party for Their Rhetoric

One thing about polls, the people taking the polls get to ask the questions and who they'll ask.  I'd take these polls with a grain of salt, but they do seem to reflect opinion.  It may not be 100% accurate or unbiased, but it does reflect opinion somewhat.  I think a lot of polls are intended to influence opinion as well as report it.  The result of this poll seems to point the finger at the Tea Party and Conservatives for the current political tone.  Which is amazing to me.  But it may be easier to understand it if the entire thing is being seen as a political issue being ginned up.  The players get on their team and that's is how it is going to be played.  One of the questions asked is if the current environment would encourage violence and more Democrats say so than Republicans.  This despite the fact that no political connection has been made between the shooting and anything that got said by anybody at anytime.  The media has ginned this up and now the Democrats are being led to believe that Republicans are gunning for them, literally.