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LoveableNerd
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 Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: Congressional Approval Falls to Historic Single Digit Low |
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Congressional Approval Falls to Single Digits for First Time Ever
Rasmussen Reports
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.
Last month, 11% of voters gave the legislature good or excellent ratings. Congress has not received higher than a 15% approval rating since the beginning of 2008.
The percentage of Democrats who give Congress positive ratings fell from 17% last month to 13% this month. The number of Democrats who give Congress a poor rating remained unchanged. Among Republicans, 8% give Congress good or excellent ratings, up just a point from last month. Sixty-five percent (65%) of GOP voters say Congress is doing a poor job, down a single point from last month.
Voters not affiliated with either party are the most critical of Congressional performance. Just 3% of those voters give Congress positive ratings, down from 6% last month. Sixty-three percent (63%) believe Congress is doing a poor job, up from 57% last month.
Just 12% of voters think Congress has passed any legislation to improve life in this country over the past six months. That number has ranged from 11% to 13% throughout 2008. The majority of voters (62%) say Congress has not passed any legislation to improve life in America.
Voters hold little positive sentiment about the future. Just 41% find it at least somewhat likely that Congress will address important problems facing our nation in the near future, while 55% find this unlikely.
Despite these negative attitudes towards Congress, Democrats continue to enjoy a double digit lead on the Generic Congressional Ballot.
Most voters (72%) think most members of Congress are more interested in furthering their own political careers. Just 14% believe members are genuinely interested in helping people.
A separate Rasmussen survey found that half of all voters believe America’s best days are in the past. However, another survey found that 64% of voters also believe that the world would be a better place if more countries were similar to the United States.
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monty
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| Congress is an faceless abstraction, a muddling committee. Approval for Congress is low, but approval of the individual members of Congress is above 50% in their districts, according to election results. |
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LoveableNerd
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| monty wrote: | | Congress is an faceless abstraction, a muddling committee. Approval for Congress is low, but approval of the individual members of Congress is above 50% in their districts, according to election results. |
Not really. Have to look at two things:
1) lack of real choices. In this two-party false left-right paradigm system, most districts have to choose between a card-carrying fascist corporate-whore called a Republican and a card-carrying socialist corporate-whore called a Democrat. Sure you have a large percentage of mindless idiots in the masses who would vote for Larry the Cable Guy if he ran on their ticket (and he'd be a step up from most candidates), but I'd say the majority of educated voters are very aware of how sold-out both parties have become, and realize that this is equivalent to choosing between a broken arm and a broken leg. So they choose the broken arm, because they believe being able to walk is more important than using their arm. But it isn't so much approval of the one they voted for as it is more disapproval of the other guy/girl. The so-called lesser of two evils. (Personally, before I'd vote for either evil I'd vote third party and if there isn't a 3rd party candidate I'd write in my own name.)
2) voter turn out. If there is only 10% voter turn out and a politician gets 51%, then s/he actually only got 5.1% approval.
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