CNN Poll: 74 Percent of Americans Say Congress Out of Touch

[Hissyspit]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/18/congress.poll/

Poll: 74 percent of Americans say Congress out of touch
POSTED: 1:48 p.m. EDT, October 18, 2006

(CNN) -- Just weeks before crucial midterm elections, a new poll says nearly three quarters of Americans see Congress as out of touch, much as they did in 1994, the last time the minority party took control of Capitol Hill.

Seventy-four percent of respondents to a new Opinion Research poll say Congress is generally out of touch with average Americans. That's up from 69 percent who agreed with that view in a January poll this year.

In 1994, 75 percent of respondents to a CNN poll also said Congress was out of touch. Voters then proceeded to vote out Democrats in both the House and the Senate, a sweep that hadn't been seen in the House since 1952. (Watch to see if the middle-class American dream is broken -- 1:50)

Recent polls have suggested increased voter interest in this election, as growing unpopularity over the U.S.-led war in Iraq and scandals in Congress have boiled over into the political arena. (Full story)

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The percentage of people who feel the administration is overly influenced by corporations is up 10 percentage points from a poll conducted in April 2001, a few months after Bush became president.

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[slackmaster]

1. The public has been saying that for a very long time

But they keep re-electing their OWN congresscritters.

[Cha]

2. What that be the voting for

torture part? And all the other draconian laws we have now?

[Ian David]

3. Republicans aren't out of touch. Just ask their pages. They touch too much