Posted on 02/10/2010 6:23:59 AM PST by SmokingJoe
Most voters think the country would be better off if the majority of the current Congress wasn’t reelected this November, and their confidence in their own congressman continues to fall.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 63% of likely voters believe, generally speaking, that it would be better for the country if most incumbents in Congress were defeated this November.
Just 19% disagree and say it would be better if most congressional incumbents were reelected. Another 18% aren’t sure.
The Political Class strongly rejects these views, however. While 78% of Mainstream voters say it would be better for the country if most of the current Congress was turned out of office, 89% of the Political Class think it would be better if most were reelected.
The number of voters nationwide (61%) who give Congress a poor job performance rating is now at its highest level in more than three years. More voters also think most members of Congress are corrupt.
Only 38% of all voters say their local representative in Congress deserves to be reelected, regardless of how Congress is doing overall. Thirty nine percent (39%) say their representative does not deserve reelection. Twenty-three percent (23%) are undecided.
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I have to say that’s a DAMN good idea.
I’ll be a believer when the likes of Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Nancy Pelosi and the obnoxious others are tossed from their safe seats. Some districts will never “get it.”
I believe “His people” humbled themselves and cried out, and His answer was “see what I can do in Massachusetts”.
Roger that!
The districts that Waters and Lee are from are so gerrymandered that you will never see them removed. They were intentionally drawn so that those seats would be perpetually occupied by persons of enhanced skin melanin content. A racist policy.
We need a constitutional amendment that the districts that Congressional representatives are elected from must geographically be a 4 sided polygon... :)
“I’ll be a believer when the likes of Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Nancy Pelosi and the obnoxious others are tossed from their safe seats.
Look at them!!
If there was any chance of getting rid of them, they would have been challenged before now.
Yeah ;-)
The problem is that people want everybody else’s congressman to not be reelected, but they like their own congressman because he brings home the pork.
Do you really think Scott Brown would have won against Ted Kennedy?
No.
But then Corzine lost in true blue NJ, and Baxter is only ahead by 3 points in Cali, and Specter is behind Pat Toomey by 9 points in PA, and Blanche Lincoln is behind a whole slew of Republican challengers by up to a massive 23% in Arkansas. There is no question Democratic incumbents are reeling under attack.
Well it is typical for the President’s party to take a licking in the midterms, that’s nothing new.
Straight from the horse mouth.
I think we need to limit ‘staffers’ to 2 years. those folks are there for ever, and really know how to get things done. without that experience, things would slow down a lot.
A very smart man recently wrote a book about how to change the gerrymandered districts, but not so smart me, forgot to take notes, and he also addressed term limits. We need one or the other, and perhaps, both.
Not on this scale.
We are looking at a possible virtually unprecedented swing from one party to another party in just 2 years.
I am a staunch supporter of term limits. I have mixed feelings on gerrymandered districts, as I saw it work in our favor in Florida, and like the idea of all the rats being consolidated into districts, thereby creating more solidly GOP districts in the process. In my homestate of New York, the gerrymandering has been worked out between the GOP State Senate and the Dem State Assembly for the last 40 years, so it has been a wash.
Yeah, I understand your point. Gerrymandering can work both ways, but I think some of the districts are outrageously rigged.
Term limits knock out a few good people, but overall I am for them. After too many years in D C, most politicians lose touch with reality.
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