Most voters don't think Congress is doing the job they were sent to do. And this is a Rasmussen report!!
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
The news goes from bad to worse for Congress, as voters offer their sharpest criticism of the legislature to date.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just seven percent (7%) of Likely Voters rate the job Congress is doing as good or excellent.
Seventy-five percent (75%) now say Congress is doing a poor job.
Poor marks for Congress are up five points from early October, just a few days in to the partial government shutdown and the rollout of the president’s health care law. This marks the legislative branch’s highest negative rating in more than seven years of regular tracking. Positive assessments of Congress are also down from nine percent (9%) last month, but have been in single digits for most of the year.
Part of the problem may be that just 32% of voters think their representative in Congress is about the same as they are when it comes to political ideology. Twenty-six percent (26%) say their representative is more politically liberal than they are, while just as many (25%) say their representative is more conservative. This is a question voters have been closely divided on for years, but slightly more voters now consider their representative to be more politically conservative than they are.
As the country looks ahead to next year’s midterm elections, only eight percent (8%) believe most members of Congress almost always get reelected because they do a good job representing their constituents. Most (67%) say they usually get reelected because election rules are rigged to benefit incumbents. One-in-four (25%) are undecided. Voters have expressed these sentiments consistently for years.
Fewer voters than ever think U.S. elections are fair. Just 10% think the average member of Congress listens to the voters he or she represents the most.
more:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_performance
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