I don't know, they look like they're lined up on the runway pretty well
from here in the VIP lounge ...
Posted on 07/08/2008 9:04:26 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
People don’t like congress but they like their own Congressman.
Put that in your pipes and smoke it RATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are the worst ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL! I love it! EVERY Republican candidate for Congress needs to heed that number, and campaign HARD against the Democrat leadership, at the same time taking a long, hard, COLD look at his or her own actions in Congress, and vowing to change if need be.
Not that I doubt these stats but can you provide a source please?
I do want them to drill, stop illegal immigration and support the United States of American in this war on radical Islam.
Exceptional. The RATS have set a record and one thing is for sure: No Congress will ever be double digits below that in approval. Single digits is a remarkable achievement. particularly when yoiu consider that about 4-5% of the population probably still thinks Jim Wright is the House Majority leader.
Now why doesn’t some industrious reporter ask Reid and Pelosi how they managed to set this record? and if they will attempt to exceed it.
Nope.
Well, ma'am, you and I are in the vast minority, but it's a pleasure to have your company.
Thanks for the link. Just forwarded it to my mailing list.
And on a conservative site no less...........
I’ve been concerned about Republican stances on civil liberties for years now, but for much longer than that, Democrats have been 100% on the wrong side of every issue I can think of, and both their leadership and rank-and-file are not only partisan to the point of stupidity, but they’ve proven themselves to be equally or more corrupt and incompetent than the average Republican. No one is bothering to vote third party any more, because none of them are capable of influencing anything. So why are voters, according to Republican polls, supposedly ready to kick the minority party, Republicans, to the curb and give still more power to people like Nancy Pelosi? I’m beginning to think this country has a death wish, almost like the Associated Press has finally succeeded in talking most of the population into slitting their own wrists.
That is what is causing the mess in the first place.
Can anyone show historically where Government intervention, price controls and and regulation improved and not made worse any food or energy crisis?
Note to McCain: it's all about cars, the icon of freedom to most Americans.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 59% of voters oppose the lower speed limit and 34% support it. Democrats are fairly evenly divided on the proposal with 43% in favor and 49% opposed. Republicans oppose the lower speed limit by a two-to-one margin and unaffiliated voters oppose it by a three-to-one margin.
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Among the youngest voters, those under 30, opposition to the lower speed limit is at 76%. Just 17% of the under-30s like the idea of a lower speed limit.
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While rejecting the nationwide speed limit, voters continue to support offshore oil drilling. The July 6 survey found that 59% support offshore drilling, a figure that is unchanged from our previous survey.
Dear John, here's how to win voters under 30 and the election: pledge to veto any legislation requiring a lower speed limit and open up all avenues of oil exploration, drilling, and refining to lower gas prices.
America loves their cars more than they love Obama.
This liberal majority congress, the worst ever, has a 9% approval rating! Rather than call out these liberals, House and Sentate Republicans would rather cry”’we’re doomed” and write off this years elections. Gutless.
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