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Congress Reaches Record Disapproval*

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According to Gallup:

Americans hold Congress in far less esteem than they do the president — 16% approve and 80% disapprove of the job Congress is doing, according to the latest update from a March 4-7 Gallup poll. That is just two points off the record-low 14% Gallup measured in July 2008. Gallup has been measuring congressional approval since 1974.

Do You Approve or Disapprove of the Way Congress Is Handling Its Job?

Lowest since July 2008? Now, let’s see, who had the congressional majority back in 2008? Oh yes, the same folks who have it now. So, that means, that under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Congress has twice reached the nadir of its approval, lower than it was in 1974 when the American people threw out record numbers of Republicans, lower than in 1994, when the American people threw out the Democrats.

Now, we know that given the then-Republican president’s low ratings in 2008, many people, like 57% of Obama voters, weren’t then aware that Democrats controlled Congress. Now, they are.

You know, I don’t think Mrs. Pelosi will find herself any more popular (except among her far-left base) if she manages to ram health care through the house.

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*Since Nancy Pelosi’s first term as Speaker.

Comments

  3. Yea but you left out that Republicans have lower scores than Dems and they are the reason the entire Congress is getting low scores. The party of NO and WE DONT WANT ANYTHING BUT GRIDLOCK is why people are upset. It’s all of Congress not just who’s in charge. So I suggest you be fair in your reporting.

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    (you must know how easy this is…._)

    “Pelosi/Reid score lower than Bush. Funny AND sad.”

    What is even funnier and sadder is that Republicans in the Congress consistently score lower that Pelosi and Reid. And lower than the Democratic Party.

    It is so odd that you people try to make these “unpopularity” arguments when your party is by far the most unpopular political entity of all.

  6. I would like to see the the poll numbers go back to 2002 and see how they compare to the Democrat controlled Congress.

    The one poll that no pollster has taken, which I would love to see, is that with the decline of Obama´s approval rating, how he is polling today in the African American community. He garnered 97% of their vote, which means about 4% of that vote came black Republicans who total 7% in the community. An extremely high approval rating would skew the overall rating.

  7. What is even funnier and sadder is that Republicans in the Congress consistently score lower that Pelosi and Reid. And lower than the Democratic Party.

    And yet, the polls clearly show that even though Republicans might be more unpopular, more people plan to vote for them.

    That is where you fail, Tano. The Massachusetts Senate election was a referendum on ObamaCare, with Barack Obama himself screaming that a vote for Scott Brown was a vote against ObamaCare and proved that you were a racist, misogynist, Nazi teabagger for doing so.

    EPIC fail. You can’t understand that, because you’re simply not capable of intelligently analyzing information. You merely repeat Obama talking points and insist that Obama is always right.

    Indoctrinated liberal racism is indeed a sad sight.