Just 8% Now Say They Are Tea Party Members

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 1/07/2013

[iowamark]

Views of the Tea Party movement are at their lowest point ever, with voters for the first time evenly divided when asked to match the views of the average Tea Party member against those of the average member of Congress. Only eight percent (8%) now say they are members of the Tea Party, down from a high of 24% in April 2010 just after passage of the national health care law.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 30% of Likely U.S. Voters now have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party. Half (49%) of voters have an unfavorable view of the movement. Twenty-one percent (21%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on January 3-4, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points...

[tomkat]

For the Republic's sake, it's gotta get done before 2016 .. assuming we're not in the midst of a civil war by then.

If only we could cede Philthy to Jersey . . .

[Osage Orange]

Polls aren't News......

Polls are manufactured "News".......

[RatRipper]

Give me a choice between Tea Party and Republican and I say Tea Party. . . all day long and then some.

WE NEED A VIABLE NEW CONSERVATIVE PARTY!!!!

[elkfersupper]

A lot of the TEA Party members also decided to go with the status-quo "mainstream" Republicans at the last minute, including myself and a lot of other FReepers.

I will NEVER do that again.

[LibLieSlayer]

scotty is just getting the results that the gop/e paid for... he lied to all of us during the election... rasmussen is the turd standard now.

LLS

[taildragger]

I like the Tea Party movement but at this point in time, I am prepping (ammo-food etc,) for the coming economic collapse( it IS coming) rather than being political active.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner. You can even see the drop off in posters here. My bet more people are doing what you noted than we realize.

Disneyland on the Potomac is so flippin' dysfunctional it can't or won't be fixed and it will collapse on itself IMHO, if that is so, it is time for us to chart another course...,.

[bicyclerepair]

Megan, are you single?

[x]

Such is the fate of ad hoc movements. If you don’t have a structure, an organization, regular meetings, leaders, publicity it’s easy to just wither away.

[struggle]

It only took 3%

[Las Vegas Ron]

BTW, you wer my 20,000th reply:

You’ve posted a total of 182 threads and 20,001 replies.

[Postman]

No. We haven’t been “scared away”. We’re just resting up and marking our new enemies before we come to get them..Watch out GOPe and all the anti-Constitutionalists

[3Fingas]

Rasmussen is just doing penance for getting the election wrong. He is going out of his way to curry favor with the perceived ascendant political class.

As far as being out of the mainstream politically....if the results of the previous election point to what now passes for mainstream, I am going Galt till everyone gains their collective senses again.

[Sarajevo]

The Tea Party is a MOVEMENT that supports a return to Constitutional small gov’t - no membership cards, dues or specific leader with a target on their back.

Will this ever sink in?

Doubtful. Some people just don't get it.

[publius911]

I say BS!

I have never claimed to be a Tea Party "member." I still am not, and I won't play the Soros "progressive" game of accepting a label.

I still totally subscribe to the Tea Party fiscal and social conservate philosophy, however, and I accept no "leadership."

[Junior_G]

I quit listening to talk radio and quit watching Fox News after the election...it’s sports radio for me now. Really, who needs to listen to a daily play-by-play of American decline?

[nutmeg]

The Tea Party movement has pretty much disappeared here in Connecticut. After the shockingly miserable 2010 election results in CT, everyone scattered off in various directions. The Ron Paul-bots went one way, "Evangelical" conservatives went another, RINO lovers went another direction, and former Tea Party people (of varying degrees of conservatism) went off in various directions. And a few were smart enough to move the heck out of Connecticut (We hope to be in that category someday).

Connecticut and the northeast - including New Hampshire (don't be fooled) - are hopeless anyway.

I know the Tea Party is alive in well in Ohio! My husband and I were honored to rally with The Clermont Tea Party in Cincinnati, Ohio on Sunday, November 4, 2012:

Ohio Demands the Truth on Benghazi (Ohio Tea Party rally Sunday, Nov 4, 2012, Cincinnati)

What an amazing, BIG group of folks! Our country needs many more patriots like these...

[nutmeg]

Was this Before or After the new paychecks?

Great point, Morris70! I think the 2014 elections will be very interesting...

[GOPsterinMA]

“Connecticut and the northeast - including New Hampshire (don’t be fooled) - are hopeless anyway.”

I posted YEARS ago on FR, that the GOP (or whatever or whoever the opposition party to the RATS is/are) shouldn’t bother wasting any $ on any elections in the NE...at BEST, it’s fools gold.

“And a few were smart enough to move the heck out of Connecticut (We hope to be in that category someday).”

I think bigger moves than just moving out of “Blue” states are needed. The way things are going, moving to the “Red” states is becoming tantamount to running to the end of the Titanic that sinks last.

[Bitsy]

The operative word is SAY. When the time comes action is what counts.

[txhurl]

TEA got alinskied too hard, too fast - look how the the gop-e took down Joe Miller with their lizard-girl Murkowski practically having to run as a DemocRAT to keep her seat.

I hope we don’t look back on Cruz as the high-water mark of TEA, but rebranding - or nobranding, that can be attacked - nobody who plans to primary anybody in ‘14 can claim the TEA mantle without attracting assured destruction it seems.