Are Teabaggers Becoming Irrelevant ?

The charts above were made from information in a recent Gallup Poll (taken between September 5th and 8th of 1,510 adults across the nation, with a 3 point margin of error), and compared to a similar poll taken in 2010 by Gallup. The purpose of the survey was to gauge support for the teabaggers, and see if that support has gone up or down.

The results are pretty clear. There is currently less support for the teabagger movement than there was in 2010. In 2010, about 32% of the general public supported the teabaggers, but that support has now dropped 10 points to 22%. That's a sizable drop in support -- about 31%. And that drop is evident across the political spectrum. It is especially large among Republicans, where the support has dropped from 65% to 38% (a drop of 27 points, or about 42%).

The drop is evident also among Independents (about 5 points, or nearly 17%). The smallest drop in support was among Democrats, but that is because the support among Democrats was extremely small to begin with. But the 2 point drop among Democrats did represent a 25% drop in support.

But while the top chart shows there is a clear decline in the support for teabaggers, the bottom chart is even more interesting. It shows where the movement has been -- toward having no opinion on the teabaggers at all. Support has dropped, but opposition has not climbed. It seems that most people now don't consider the teabagger movement to be very important anymore (either positively or negatively).

This has to be a slap in the face for the teabaggers, who consider themselves to be an important movement -- the "saviors" of America. They didn't mind the opposition so much, because that lent them a certain credibility. But simply becoming irrelevant (as seems to be happening) means their credibility is also disappearing.