Only 3% of the country 'strongly approves' of Congressional performance

Discussion in 'Politics' started by DemZad, Oct 5, 2011.

  1. And that's a record low:

    WASHINGTON — After months of partisan gridlock, more Americans of all political stripes disapprove of the US Congress than at any point in more than two decades, a poll found Wednesday.
    The Washington Post/ABC News poll found that just 14 percent of the US public approves of the job Congress is doing, less than just before elections in 1994, 2006 and 2010, which all saw the majority party lose the House.
    The poll found that just three percent of Americans "strongly approve" of lawmakers' performance -- "essentially as low as possible, given the poll's margin of error of four percentage points,"

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