The Tuesday Morning Jolt features the rise of Newt-mania, the Supercommittee failure fallout, and this latest surprising poll result . . .

America to Occupy Wall Street: Okay, You’re Starting to Bore Us, Kids
Wait, riots, body-painted naked hippie girls, lunatic losers pooping on police cars, all of this occurring in what is best described as lice-infested, Nazi-endorsed rape camps, and the American people deem it . . . boring?
This is one of those moments where if I were a pollster, I would be hitting the computer tabulating the results on the side as if it were a static-filled old fashioned antennae television and yelling, “What is WRONG with this thing?!?”
I can understand feeling like we’ve seen variations of this since at least the anti-WTO protests in Seattle in 1999, if not all the way back to the 1960s. I can understand finding the whole thing tired and tiresome. But to see all this and to genuinely not have any flicker of an emotion, pro or con, about the whole thing? Really?
Read it and . . . shrug?
A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows that the “Occupy” movement has failed to capture the attention of a majority of Americans, indicating either ambivalence toward it or lack of interest.
The poll finds that 56% of Americans surveyed are neither supporters nor opponents and 59% say they don’t know enough to have an opinion about the movement’s goals.
The survey, however, does show an increase from 20% to 31% in disapproval of the way the protests are being conducted.
Results are based on phone interviews Saturday and Sunday on the Gallup Daily tracking survey, with a random sample of 996 adults, ages 18 or over, living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, chosen using random-digit dial sampling.
At the sympathetic Village Voice, Rosie Gray decides this just means the American people are ignorant: “A straight-up media circus has developed around the protests over the last couple months, which makes it seem surprising that people don’t know enough about OWS to have an opinion. But before drawing big conclusions from this, keep in mind that this is the same country where in 2006, 37 percent of respondents to a National Geographic poll couldn’t find Iraq on a map and a full 50 percent couldn’t locate New York. Not knowing stuff is what we’re all about, and isn’t the best indicator of whether or not said stuff is important.”
Of course, things may get really interesting at the end of the week. Jill Krasny at BusinessInsider gives us the bad news: “Apparently Occupy Wall Street wants to stock up on linens and cookware this season. The Wall Street movement is setting its sights on Black Friday, with the goal of ‘hitting the 1% where it hurts — right in the wallet,’ according to its website StopBlackFriday.com. This means going medieval in your local Target, and the rest of America’s ‘large chains and publicly traded retail.’ Consumers, you’ve been warned.”
Part of me wants to see those punks try to get between the Black Friday Über-shoppers and their Friday-morning-only deal on a big flatscreen at Buy More. (That link brought to you by outspoken Hollywood conservative Adam Baldwin.) You thought it was rough-and-tumble when Cabbage Patch Kids hit the shelves.
John Lilyea writes at This Ain’t Hell, “Yeah, that’ll work. Think the 1% can’t weather one bad sales season, think they’ll all go bankrupt because of one day’s sales? Besides, the 99% are already ‘camping out’ at the retailers so they can spend their money. Oh, yeah, ever hear of Internet sales? How are you planning to interrupt those without breaking some terrorism laws? And who is really going to be hurt? If sales are down, it’s the employees who’ll lose their jobs, starting with the newest and the lowest paid. So who is the inspiration for this Occupy movement? This gathering the young Americans?”