Public Anger at Congress

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]I wonder how much money the Kochs and Dick Armey are budgeting to get the Teatards reelected.[/FONT]
 
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]I wonder how much money the Kochs and Dick Armey are budgeting to get the Teatards reelected.[/FONT]
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Better be a lot, I don't think they are a well thought of bunch at this point.
 
The Republican Party has its highest unfavorability rating in this poll since the December 1998 when the House Republicans impeached Clinton.
 
A record-low 21% of registered voters say most members of Congress deserve re-election.




That compares with 54% of voters saying their own member deserves re-election, and 47% who say President Barack Obama does.




Obama now has a slight edge, 49% to 45%, over a generic Republican candidate in 2012 voting preferences.




http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx
 
Unfortunately, people have a strong tendency to go with the familiar at the ballot box, even when their opinion is unfavorable. How many times have we seen prominent party members with low favorable ratings re-win their seats in congress?

What I would like to see is these dissatisfaction numbers show up in the primaries. Then we'd be a lot more likely to actually see new blood in Congress.
 
Good Luck said:
Unfortunately, people have a strong tendency to go with the familiar at the ballot box, even when their opinion is unfavorable. How many times have we seen prominent party members with low favorable ratings re-win their seats in congress?

What I would like to see is these dissatisfaction numbers show up in the primaries. Then we'd be a lot more likely to actually see new blood in Congress.
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john murtha comes to mind. got re-elected after calling his constituents racist hillbillies.
 
Mr. T said:
That seems to be pretty good since overall Congress only has a 12% approval rating. Its time to cut off the dead weight and get rid of the RINO's and Liberals.
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Good luck with that.


A Pew Research/Washington Post poll finds 29 percent of those asked think Tea Party members have had a mostly negative effect in Congress. That's up 11 percent in the eight short months since most of those members took office.


There are two other pieces of bad news for members who support the Tea Party in this poll. The first is that 35 percent of respondents think the group has not had much of an effect at all. Worse is that 28 percent of independents say that Tea Party members have had a negative effect


http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2...cians-more-negatively-says-poll#ixzz1UaVcWHUM​
 
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