Democrat Congress doing GREAT!
By LanceKates Posted in Archived — Comments (18) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Why, in this recent report from Rasmussen, the Democrat Congress' approval rating is a whopping 9%.
In fact, they haven't been above 15% since the beginning of the year.
It is a pity that, despite this woefully low approval rating, the Democrats are expected to not only retain controll of Congress, but actually gain seats.
How does one even react to an approval rating of 9%? 91% of those polled didn't approve of Congress.
91%! What do you even do at that point?
If you had 91% of the shareholders of your company disapproving of you, you'd no longer be the CEO.
What options does that leave to us?
My definition of approval is when your work is judged as being good or excellent. Only 9% of those polled judge Congress this way. All of the other choices in the poll besides good and excellent have absolutely nothing to do with approval. They only have to do with the degree of disapproval that exists.
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business … frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise.Ronald Reagan
No, fair does not imply that one at least approves.
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Dependence is Slavery.
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I don't know whether fair can be interpreted as approval, but according to merriam-webster.com: "fair:sufficient but not ample : adequate." I don't think it is totally unrealistic that some people might "approve" of an adequate performance. At best, this poll is vague.
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism..." - Theodore Roosevelt
Don't jump up and down on this.
According to a poll, 48% of the 'sheep' still believe the congress is being controlled by GOP.
We are doomed with apathetic voting bloc like this. The fall of Roman empire.
2007 wasn't actually all that bad a year for us (although we need Congress back for judges). Much better than I expected, really, mostly because Congressional Democrats panic at the drop of a hat.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
Where have they been since November of 2006?
The Democrats celebrated so much that they launched the Presidental Campaign right away.
Don't they remember the "First 100 Hours" of the Democrat Congress, in which they took one day off because of a college football game and also took another day to spend half of it with kids there doing nothing, and off for the rest of that day.
how can a group of people be so stupid as to continue to vote for Senators, give them a 9% approval rating, then vote for them again?
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Dependence is Slavery.
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If an anti-American radical Obama can be this close to the white house, it's almost a given 48% of the sheep wouldn't be able to tell which party is controlling the Congress.
Voters get what they deserve.
That movement isn't new.
Remember that flap with Kerry about him and his wife prefering to speak French at home?
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Dependence is Slavery.
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Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.85
Stop calling the American voting public "sheep" on this website.
Thanks in advance.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
20% or so? I'm not sure, but definatly much better than congress. As far as Dem congress being expected to gain seats, well I don't know, but I think that may be an un-realized expectaion if these guys keep it up.
Drill here Drill now! might hand us a large new group of rookies in Congress and the Senate. People are pretty angry these days.
With the way polls have been pretty unreliable this election cycle, I take any poll with a healthy dose of scepticisim.
Can we really say for certain that Dems control congress? Bush seems to be getting his way an awful lot lately. Congress could have stopped the war in '06 if they really wanted too. Now they caved on FISA, the holy grail of the nutroots.
You know, they don't use the same scale for the President as for Congress.
A shame as it'd be MUCH easier to compare the two.
Rassmussen uses a "Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor" rating scale for Congress, but a "Strongly Approve, Somewhat Approve, Somewhat Disapprove, Strongly Disapprove" rating scale for the President.
By the way, it is rated at 32% approval for the President. Nearly 4 times that of Congress. Though I wonder how many of the 'somewhat disapprove' group would have voted 'fair' if they had the chance.
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Dependence is Slavery.
Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: 7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.85
I am not too good at looking these things up. I should probably practice, heh. Looks to me like he has hovered between 30-40% for the last 18 months. Not too bad.
History will vindicate him I say.
Not unless we change who writes history books.
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Dependence is Slavery.
Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: 7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.85
That's pretty good, considering that Soros is spending $100's of millions still, especially in Europe, to discredit the Republicans and Bush. And the media has its non-stop drumbeat of propaganda against Bush. 27% of us still have a brain.
Kate
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.” Henry Miller
As of right now, the Dems are likely to gain seats because the American people are fixated with recording their disapproval of Pres. Bush.
*First*.
But, believe me, if Barry gets in there, and he and the Dem Congress mess up as badly as Clinton & co. did in 1993-94, I guarantee that these high Congressional disapproval ratings will translate into one of the biggest Congressional Dem. bloodbaths in 2010 that we've ever seen.
Barry & co. have only one (short-lived) chance to get this thing right for The Left.
If they mess it up, it's going to get *ugly* out there for them.
(And that's my "happy thought" for all of you for today!)
That link is contradictory. It says in the article that 9% say congress is doing an excellent job, while the table says 2% think congress is excellent and 7% good, while another fifty something percent think it's doing a fair job.
Does a fair job not imply that one at least approves? I'm all for passing out blame where blame is due, and I do think that it is partially in our national legislature.
I guess my question is how to define approve.