GALLUP: Congressional Job Approval Ties Historic Low of 13%, Disapproval rating of 84% highest ever.

[jefferson_dem]

Congressional Job Approval Ties Historic Low of 13%
Disapproval rating of 84% highest in Gallup annals

by Jeffrey M. Jones

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' evaluation of the job Congress is doing is the worst Gallup has ever measured, with 13% approving, tying the all-time low measured in December 2010. Disapproval of Congress is at 84%, a percentage point higher than last December's previous high rating.



These results are based on an Aug. 11-14 Gallup poll, which includes the first update on Congress' job approval rating since the government reached agreement on a deal to raise the debt ceiling after contentious and protracted negotiations between President Obama and congressional leaders. Standard & Poor's subsequently downgraded the United States' credit rating, in part citing the current political environment in Washington. That sparked a week of intense volatility in the stock market, with days of sharp losses and large gains.

Frustration with Congress was evident immediately after the debt ceiling agreement, with a record-low 21% of registered voters in an Aug. 4-7 USA Today/Gallup poll saying most members of Congress deserve re-election.

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When Gallup last measured Congress' job approval rating in early July, 18% approved and 77% disapproved. That poll came while the debt ceiling discussions were underway but well before the talks dragged on to just before the Treasury Department's Aug. 2 deadline.

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Independents are currently the most critical of Congress, with 9% approving and 86% disapproving. Republicans and Democrats give Congress slightly higher, but still overwhelmingly negative, marks.

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/149009/Congressional-Job-Approval-Ties-Historic-Low.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=Politics

[Hart2008]

1. The more important question is will they reelect their own Reps and Senators

As the polling results show, Congress usually has a low approval rating. However, people tend to support their own Reps. So they tend to think that Congress as a whole are profligate spenders, but when their own Rep brings home the pork, he/she is doing a good job.

When spending gets cut in their own state or district, then the folks back home get unhappy with them.

[DCKit]

2. There was a report a week or so ago that stated, for the first time in history...

fewer than 50% thought their folks on Capitol Hill deserved to be reelected.

I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

[Hart2008]

3. It means people want real change. It isn't good for an incumbent president.

It means people don't like these bipartisan compromises that Obama has agreed to recently.

That is reflected in Obama's plunging approval ratings.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. The Country's In The Very Best of Hands . . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwqPBlSxb-0

[fasttense]

5. So, it seems that Congress and the President are passing legislation for 13% of Americans.

The other 87% of Americans are just sh*t out of luck.

[scheming daemons]

6. The President is at 41%.... its congress that is at 13%

[Hart2008]

8. When the President compromises with a Congress at 13% approval, he gets problems himself!

Why does the President have this need to compromise with an unpopular Congress.

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Harry Truman sure didn't and he won a tough reelection battle. He railed against the "Do Nothing Congress". Obama can't do that since he insists on cutting deals with them, rather than using executive power to check them.

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Bush, Sr., reneged on his "No new taxes" pledge and cut a deal with the Congress, and he got voted out. Of the three candidates that year, the exit polls showed that he was the one candidate that could not possibly win the election

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[joshcryer]

11. I'll let you know in Oct. if I agree with you on that.

If the Gang of 12 "gang bangs" us then I will surely, and most of Obama's liberal base will surely, have something actually substantive to say.

[joshcryer]

10. The President was elected by 52% of 63% turnout and has a 39% approval.

Meanwhile the 112th United States Congress House makeup was elected by 41% of the eligible population by 51% and has a 13% approval.

In other words the approval makeup of the congress is unsurprising, with around 7% of the voters disapproving of the people they put into office.

Math, it's fun.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Yet they strut around like peacocks, all full of themselves.

Get rid of the whole bunch.

[sudopod]

9. How many of those people even know who their representatives and senators are? nt

[tritsofme]

12. I'm surprised it's that high.

I mean who in their right mind, Democrat or Republican could honestly say that they approve of this entire Congress? It is clearly dysfunctional.

[LetTimmySmoke]

13. Who are these 13%

I bet if you asked 100 people on the street if they approved of congress, you would not get 13 approvals.

[Change Happens]

14. This is truly Bazzaroooooo world, right now!