countryboy
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You're right man, Tucker Carlson of Fox News, and Chris Matthews of mslsd are exactly the same thing. My bad, gosh what was I thinking?
Tucker Carlson of FoxNews predicts Donald Trump could resign in the next few weeks
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You're right man, Tucker Carlson of Fox News, and Chris Matthews of mslsd are exactly the same thing. My bad, gosh what was I thinking?
Do you want to see the videos of those same people from MSNBC that know a thousand times more than anyone else predict that Trump would loose
Loving91390
Verified User
Liar !
Nomad
Every trumper is a N4T.
Trump's win was totally out of left field thanks to 77,000 dumbass fucking idiots in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Do you want to see the videos of those same people from MSNBC that know a thousand times more than anyone else predict that Obama would win in '08 and '12?
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
indeed
And since when is posting the truth a requirement on this forum?
Lies permeate this forum, especially by the radicalized extremists.
Just trying to fit in.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
cawacko
Well-known member
Even "Radicalized extremists" post links. So congrats on taking it to the next level?
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
evince
Truthmatters
Not Good Enough ... I want to see him BROKE and BUSTED ... like the Loser he really is.
oh he will be
evince
Truthmatters
he lied about Russian contacts also
he is Russian dirty as hell
he is in on all the crimes
he cant appoint a VP unless its approved by the house and senate
which means we can take him out befiore theres a republican VP appointed
can you say President Pelosi
HMMMM
Hilary for VP?
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
No, I can not say President Pelosi. I can't even think about it. It makes me nauseous.
evince
Truthmatters
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
Uh, yeah. The OP is a fake. And folks like you, blind, dumb as fuck, believe anything. As kind as I can put it, the Democrats rely on less than intelligent people like you to keep them in office. And it works.
That is called the Democratic Party of the Jackass. Then there are willful idiots like you with the IQ of an earthworm who make up another 6 - 10% of the population.
Democrats rely on superjocks with celestial IQs who look like a young Robert Redford to keep them in office? I had no idea.
Thanks! Lol
Actually you prove my point. They rely on delusional, not packing a full seabag kind of folk. As you so eloquently just proved. Thanks!
Mason Michaels
Verified User
Candy ass snowflake,can dish it out but can't take it!
DebraDoesDonald
Verified User
Why is that?
Personally I would rather see younger Dems in power. We've had enough of the old guard.
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
I would rather see younger members of Congress altogether. The incumbents have carved out a nice gig for themselves and it's disgraceful.
The average age of members of congress is 60 (the oldest on record). Airline pilots are required to retire at 65. Members of Congress should be required to retire at 70.
Congress has 11% approval ratings but 96% incumbent reelection rate
It would be an understatement to say that voters in the recently completed midterm elections didn’t exactly feel warm and fuzzy about incumbents on the ballot this year -- even about the ones they voted for. According to the 2014 exit poll of voters, 59 percent of those who voted said they weren’t happy with Republican leadership in Congress, even as they were handing control of the Senate to the GOP.
A meme making its way around social media, sent to PolitiFact by a reader, captured the frustration many Americans felt. The meme said, "11% approval ratings. 96.4% re-elected" -- in other words, Congress has 11 percent approval ratings, yet 96.4 percent of incumbent lawmakers were re-elected in 2014. The text was superimposed over a photograph of the House chamber in the Capitol.
We wondered whether that was true, so we took a look.
Does Congress have 11 percent approval ratings?
While the meme features a picture of the House chamber, the most common polling question refers to Congress generally, rather than the House specifically, so we looked at Congress’ approval ratings overall. We found congressional approval scores from October 2014 from five different pollsters on the poll-archive website PollingReport.com:
• Fox News: "Do you approve or disapprove of the job Congress is doing?" 13 percent said "approve."
• CBS News: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?" 14 percent said "approve."
• CNN/ORC: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?" 13 percent said "approve."
• ABC News/Washington Post: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way the U.S. Congress is doing its job?" 20 percent said "approve."
• NBC News/Wall Street Journal: "In general, do you approve or disapprove of the job that Congress is doing?" 12 percent said "approve."
That averages out to 14 percent -- slightly higher than 11 percent, but in the same, miserable ballpark.
Were 96.4 percent of congressional incumbents re-elected?
To be consistent with the polling, which covers Congress broadly, we’ll lump together the incumbent winning percentages in both the House and Senate. There are a few contests still to be decided, but there are enough settled that we can make a pretty close count.
In the House, we counted 390 incumbents who ran on Election Day. Of those, four haven’t had their races called as of Nov. 10, so we’ll set them aside. Of the remaining 386 incumbents, 373 won, for a winning percentage of 96.6 percent.
If you add in three incumbents who ran but lost in primaries, the incumbent winning percentage drops to 95.9 percent.
Meanwhile, in the Senate, 23 out of 26 incumbents won, with one more (Alaska’s Mark Begich, a Democrat) trailing in a race that has not yet been called, and another (Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu, also a Democrat) heading into a runoff.
If you don’t include Begich and Landrieu, the combined House-Senate incumbent winning percentage is 95.4 percent. If you do include them, it falls slightly to 95 percent.
All of these percentages are exceedingly close to the meme’s stated 96.4 percent, and they’re a moving target due to late-called races. So we won’t quibble.
Our ruling
The meme said that Congress has 11 percent approval ratings, yet 96.4 percent of incumbent lawmakers were re-elected.
We found small differences in the actual percentages -- Congress had roughly a 14 percent approval rate, and the incumbent re-election rate may be as low as 95 percent -- but the point of the meme is solid. Voters hold Congress in low regard, yet they re-elect almost everyone. So we rate the claim True.
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