Rasmussen reports "8% of the nation's voters identify with the teaparty." Translation: there are still 13 million teaparty folks left to fight another day . . . . and there is more to say on this matter:

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From Rasmussen:   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.

Editor’s notes:

This is not as bad a report for the teaparty as it might seem.  

First,  the fact that so many have a negative view of the teaparty is not a mark against the teaparty.  Rather,  it is a testament to the effectiveness of the Left Wing Press.  

Secondly,  understand that 8% of the voting public is equal to 13 million folks . . . .  no small constituency  . . . .   and these are active folks.  

When they say that 21% are undecided,  that simply means that 21% of the folks interviewed had some favorable opinions of the teaparty or they would not be “undecided.”  You could be looking at another 18 to 20 million voters,  if the GOP could come up with a solid and likeable conservative candidate.  

This is during the same period that Progressive numbers fell by 12% as measured against the 2008 election.  

Point of post:  both sides of the aisle have lost "membership,"  or,  at least,  interest from within the national community.   In other words,  the teaparty is just as strong,  comparatively speaking, as it was in 2010.