Ekins

Ekins photographed about 250 signs, and more than half of those she saw reflected a "limited government ethos," she found - touching on such topics as the role of government, liberty, taxes, spending, deficit and concern about socialism.

Few signs at tea party rally expressed racially charged anti-Obama themes Amy Gardner 2010

Hollywood's Jerry Weintraub can take a joke, and one of the joys of His Way, an HBO documentary about the famed producer/promoter to air tonight is the amused testimony of family and friends -- even George and Barbara Bush -- about this Bronx boy's rise from Depression era Brooklyn to a Beverly Hills mansion, where he now resides with his long time companion Susie Ekins while still lovingly married to Jane Morgan.

Regina Weinreich: Jerry Weintraub: His Way by Way of Brooklyn, eh, the Bronx Regina Weinreich 2011

Ekins spent the summer researching the tea party movement and also as an intern at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington.

Few signs at tea party rally expressed racially charged anti-Obama themes Amy Gardner 2010

Emily Ekins, a graduate student at UCLA, conducted the survey at the 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington last month by scouring the crowd, row by row and hour by hour, and taking a picture of every sign she passed.

Few signs at tea party rally expressed racially charged anti-Obama themes Amy Gardner 2010

Hollywood's Jerry Weintraub can take a joke, and one of the joys of His Way, an HBO documentary about the famed producer/promoter to air tonight is the amused testimony of family and friends -- even George and Barbara Bush -- about this Bronx boy's rise from Depression era Brooklyn to a Beverly Hills mansion, where he now resides with his long time companion Susie Ekins while still lovingly married to Jane Morgan.

Regina Weinreich: Jerry Weintraub: His Way by Way of Brooklyn, eh, the Bronx Regina Weinreich 2011

"Really this is an issue of salience," Ekins said.

Few signs at tea party rally expressed racially charged anti-Obama themes Amy Gardner 2010

Hollywood's Jerry Weintraub can take a joke, and one of the joys of His Way, an HBO documentary about the famed producer/promoter to air tonight is the amused testimony of family and friends -- even George and Barbara Bush -- about this Bronx boy's rise from Depression era Brooklyn to a Beverly Hills mansion, where he now resides with his long time companion Susie Ekins while still lovingly married to Jane Morgan.

Regina Weinreich: Jerry Weintraub: His Way by Way of Brooklyn, eh, the Bronx Regina Weinreich 2011

"Tea party libertarians are somewhat younger, better educated and almost twice as likely to 'never' go to church than tea party conservatives," Kirby and Ekins write.

Leon T. Hadar: Will Anti-Interventionist Congressional Republicans Please Stand Up Leon T. Hadar 2010

"Tea party libertarians are somewhat younger, better educated and almost twice as likely to 'never' go to church than tea party conservatives," Kirby and Ekins write.

Leon T. Hadar: Will Anti-Interventionist Congressional Republicans Please Stand Up Leon T. Hadar 2010

"Tea party libertarians are somewhat younger, better educated and almost twice as likely to 'never' go to church than tea party conservatives," Kirby and Ekins write.

Leon T. Hadar: Will Anti-Interventionist Congressional Republicans Please Stand Up Leon T. Hadar 2010