72 Percent Of Americans Disapprove Of Republicans In Congress

[applegrove]

72 Percent Of Americans Disapprove Of Republicans In Congress

by Alana Howoritz at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/14/republicans-approval-rating-congress-gop_n_5820130.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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An astounding 72 percent of Americans say they are unhappy with Republicans in Congress, according to a recent poll.

President Barack Obama and the Democrats fared a bit better. The poll, conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News and released last week, found that only 54 percent and 61 percent said they disapprove of Obama and Democrats respectively.

Republicans' approval rating has been terrible for years, and Congress as a whole is almost universally disliked.

The findings may not have a strong bearing on the GOP's midterm elections chances. Recent polls show the Republicans have an edge in both the Senate and the House.





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[niyad]

1. I disapprove of them everywhere.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, applegrove.

[applegrove]

3. .

[Uncle Joe]

4. You realize that the only reason 72% of Americans disapprove of Republicans in Congress

is because they suck.

[edhopper]

5. And yet

They have a chance of taking both Houses.
Cause voters got some serious stupid.

[YoungDemCA]

6. Or rather, cause most of the people who disapprove of the Republicans in Congress

Either don't vote, or are packed into gerrymandered high-density Democratic districts.

The Republicans can win in the House and Senate even if they lose the popular vote nationally (as they did in 2010 and 2012-well at least the House). Turnout in midterm elections is notoriously abysmal. Thus, a Republican congressman can say he won with 70 percent of the vote in his district-but he won't say that only 30 percent of the voting-age population (VAP) in that district actually bothered to show up to the polls. 70 percent of 30 is slightly over 20 percent of the adult population.

Sucks, doesn't it?

[applegrove]

7. If dems showed up at the polls, in presidential election year numbers, we

would not lose the senate.

[yeoman6987]

10. The Democratic Party are in the big cities

Republican are in small towns and suburbs

[nruthie]

8. It doesn't matter.

Their loyal constituents will keep voting them all in just to spite us all.

[applegrove]

9. Welcom to the DU Nruthie.