Posted on 03/16/2010 2:17:26 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
WSJ/NBC News Poll: Throw ‘Em All Out
Congress has managed to get its approval ratings back down to the pre-election level, with just 17% of voters saying they approve of the job Congress is doing, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll out later today.
The trend line has been sinking for the past year, after a post-election peak of 31% in February 2009, a month after President Barack Obama took office and the new Congress began. More than three-quarters of voters, 77%, said they disapproved of the job Congress was doing.
In fact, when it comes to Congress, many voters would like to start anew. Asked if they would “replace every single member of Congress, including your own representative” if they could, 50% said “yes” while 47% said “no.”
The voters who supported the clean-slate approach largely didn’t care much about whether the Democrats or Republicans ended up in the majority.
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In fact, when it comes to Congress, many voters would like to start anew. Asked if they would “replace every single member of Congress, including your own representative” if they could, 50% said “yes” while 47% said “no.”
THAT is the problem.
I am sure this has nothing at all to do with the health care bill moving through the House.
Who ARE these 17% people? They must be dumber than a sack of rocks.
We need to change the sheets of congress EVERY election, make it darn expensive for lobbyist and let no congress critter get too comfortable.
What we have now needs to stop!
DRAIN THE SWAMP!
Polls should ask if Nancy Pelosi has lived up to her 2006 pledge of running “The most ethical Congress in History”
This poll generally tracks to the left which makes these numbers even more impressive.
SUCH A NOTION IS A BUNCH OF CRAP!
Republicans are standing with the American people on fighting HUSSEIN's takeover the health care industry.
Democrats are fighting against the American people.
There is a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE difference between the parties.
See!! The public views Republicans just as badly as Democrats!!! "Both Sides" are to blame for the mess. The public hates "partisan bickering." The public just wants them all to work together and pass healthcare . . . .
It seems that I’ve read where everyone thinks that Congress is a problem, but they rate their own reps much better than they do Congress in general.
Go figure.
We couldn’t get rid of our RINOish Repub in Texas Primary for Dist 12. Kay Grainer (NARAL loves her) couldn’t get dislodged, so I’m a little disappointed in the Texans in my district.
They're in the top 5% of earners and the bottom 5% of earners...welfare parasites and and trust funded,guilt ridden "progressives".
Yes, it is. “Everyone else’s is horrible, mine is great.” Another reason we need term limits, among other things.
See, I might have voted no on this one, b/c I have one of the most conservative members of Congress who has taken a STRONG stance on the healthcare bill and all of the crazy spending stuff.
He’s Tom Price of GA, and I’d like more who think as he does. Don’t know him personally, but approve of his voting record.
Exactly.
I want a bumper sticker that says just that.
There are so few good ones I'm willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
You got that right. The only people in Washington stopping this abomination right now have the R by their names. There is no such thing as a “good” Dem. He died in 1908 (Grover Cleveland).
Go figure.
Earmarks. Post Offices. Museums. Roads to nowhere.
My guess is that it's about 90% of the population of San Francisco, Berkeley, Cambridge and the other "People's Republics" scattered around the country.
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