Americans' Confidence in Congress Falls to Lowest on Record

[alp227]

Source: Gallup

Americans' confidence in Congress as an institution is down to 10%, ranking the legislative body last on a list of 16 societal institutions for the fourth straight year. This is the lowest level of confidence Gallup has found, not only for Congress, but for any institution on record. Americans remain most confident in the military, at 76%.



Read more: http://www.gallup.com/poll/163052/americans-confidence-congress-falls-lowest-record.aspx

[dorkzilla]

1. The problem is our Congressional members couldn't give a rat's ass...

They're doing the bidding of their corporate masters, and that is ALL that matters.

[Iliyah]

2. WOW, Gallup is getting busy

old news, we already know that congress is fucked-up.

[L0oniX]

5. Even Miss Cleo knew that before they did.

[Fuddnik]

8. Oh, it's you.

I'm trying to squash that gnat on my screen again.

What makes it worse, is there's a real one flying around in here too.

[L0oniX]

9. LOL ...I just had a real one land on my screen too.

[zeemike]

17. Don't let them mate,

The last thing we need is an internet infistation....

[grahamhgreen]

3. Which clearly shows that COMPROMISE with them is NOT what Americans want.

PS - big business is notably missing.....

[L0oniX]

4. Well that makes sense ...they only represent about 10% ...and those are all corporations.

[Fuddnik]

6. And they'll vote the very same assholes back in next year.

Our leaders are already picked for us by the corporations and the media. And our leaders have picked their constituents.

[PSPS]

16. That's the nut of the problem.

Ever since I can remember, the approval rating for Congress has been very low. That really doesn't matter anyway because, even though people hate Congress, they love their own member. It's that last detail that insures nothing will change, especially now with computer-assisted gerrymandering.

[madokie]

18. OOPS

Not all of us love our congress critters because I wouldn't give a one of my states critters the time of day. In fact the few that I even care about are not from OK and I can count all of them on one hand

[roamer65]

7. Notice the rankings of the military and police?

Fascism is a brewin, kids.

[femmocrat]

12. Yes... maybe the poll was before the reports about sexual abuse.

The public schools didn't fare very well. I bet it was a right-wing poll!

[JDPriestly]

15. Public schools moved up 3 points. That's pretty good.

[leftynyc]

21. And the Presidency up 4

Also good news. Congress being in the sewer doesn't surprise anyone.

[ladjf]

10. I think Amercans are over rating Congress. Their level should be down around 0.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

11. Wow. . .to use an Al Franken joke, Congress's approval rating is four points higher than the

Unabomber's, (MOE 3%)

[freshwest]

13. Look at the hating on public school and unions. The Koch brothers rule!

[JDPriestly]

14. The public schools have gained 3 points. Actually, they are moving up.

[JoeyT]

19. Wow, congress is working hard at scoring a negative number in a poll.

Can they suck hard enough to break math? Stay tuned to find out!

I'm actually more interested in what 10% said yes and why. People with a really good congressperson that thought the question was asking about their specific guy? People that think constant fuckups are entertaining? Did 10% just say yes to everything?

[Kolesar]

20. Remember when Romney polled 0% +/- 3% with black Americans?

Statistics, margin of error, whatever!

[JoeyT]

23. No, but I just looked it up.

That's beyond awesome.

Kind of sad though. If we didn't have a bunch of nuts running around he would've polled 0% +/-3% with all demographics.

[CBHagman]

22. Now I want to see the breakdown for voters on support for their current reps.

Is this another case of believing everyone else is the problem, but not the local congresscritter? We've heard that often enough in the past!