GOP now places third in congressional poll

So much for all this bluster about the Republicans retaking Congress, huh?

A new Rasmussen poll says the Republicans are now in third place in a generic congressional ballot. Yes, I said T-H-I-R-D. This poll says the GOP is now behind a hypothetical "tea party" that places second. Both the GOP and the "tea party" trail the Democrats badly.

What exactly is the Republicans' remaining base of support then? This is like that recent congressional election in upstate New York being replicated on a national scale. And we all know how that turned out (i.e., not good for the Republicans).

What's particularly downbeat for the Republicans is that Rasmussen has generally been an outlier that has shown significantly more GOP support than other pollsters.

No Republican Revolution in 2010, methinks.