Posted on 09/13/2010 11:46:39 AM PDT by King_Corey
Heading into the final weeks of the congressional election season, 62% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that no matter how bad things are, Congress can always make them worse. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 19% disagree, with 19% more not sure.
This level of skepticism is shared by a majority of just about every partisan and demographic group, including 53% of Democrats whose party currently controls both houses of Congress.
The only exception is the nation's Political Class. Seventy-five percent (75%) of voters in the political Mainstream say if something is not going well, Congress can always make it worse, but 63% of the Political Class disagree (see more on the Political Class-Mainstream divide).
Other recent results have found that 60% believe most members of Congress don't care what their constituents think. Also, voters are evenly divided as to whether a group randomly selected from the phone book could do as good a job as the current Congress. Overall, just 16% say that Congress is doing a good or an excellent job.
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Alternate title: 38% of likely voters are certifiable idiots.
Great questions from Rasmussen!
This reminds me of something I told a liberal friend before the 2008 election: “You think things are bad now? Wait until Obama’s in The White House.”
Tha goes for the Congress as well. What a ship of fools.
I thought that was Congress’s job, to fix things by making them worse. Don’t tell me they have been doing it accidentally. That kind of damage has to be intentional.
Q: So, how bad are things?
A: They are so bad.....
Every day Congress meets, it spends other peoples money.
One day they will just vote each other $100,000,000.
They can do it, cash the checks, and no one could stop them.
I’m surprised it’s only 62%...
“Alternate title: 38% of likely voters are certifiable idiots.”
Ain’t that the truth! One would think “no matter how bad things are, Congress can always make them worse” would be as indisputable as 2+2=4, especially with Dems in charge. That 38% would deny this is a true head-scratcher.
Obama is not one of us. But one man alone cannot destroy us.
What I can’t fathom is why 60+ traitorous senators went along with his pogrom to destroy this country?
It amazes and frightens me that we have such a scurrilous, seditious, and sordid Senate body. All it took was a handful of patriotic conscionable and freedom loving democrat statesmen to stop this crazed president from fulfilling his father’s dreams. But all the Senate democrats voted with this most anti-American of all presidents. How can we have 60-70 socialist-fascist senators in our government?
The price will be paid this November, but this man and this Senate have willfully driven this country to the precipice of bankruptcy.
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