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Stunning new Gallup Poll finds 13% of Americans still approve of Congress
Los Angeles Times ^ | 12/15/10 | Andrew Malcolm

Posted on 12/15/2010 8:56:34 AM PST by Nachum

A fresh Gallup Poll released this morning reveals that somehow 13% of Americans still approve of the job being done by Congress. The new Gallup survey did not identify those people, understandably. However, even though it is a surprisingly high number given the work not done there in recent years, the 13% is a record low job approval for Congress since Gallup began compiling such data in 1974. The same Dec. 10-12 survey finds a record high 83% of Americans disapprove of the job being done by the folks on Capitol Hill, also the worst

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KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010polls; congress; gallup; poll; stunning
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To: Nachum
Is this satire? How can 13% be a surprising HIGH number?

And, has this nit wit considered that the number might have gone up slightly because of the infusion of Tea Party-backed candidates that incoming to congress?

21 posted on 12/15/2010 10:09:51 AM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: US Navy Vet

Not all Hispanics are liberal. I myself am an ultra conservative who hates this Congress and the Obama agenda.


22 posted on 12/15/2010 11:06:43 AM PST by erod (Unlike the President I am a true Chicagoan.)
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