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Gold9472
02-18-2006, 03:00 PM
Only 25% of Americans Approve of Current Congress

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/10920

(Gold9472: Can you imagine when it finally gets to 1%?)

February 18, 2006

(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Few adults in the United States are satisfied with the performance of the House of Representatives and the Senate, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. Only 25 per cent of respondents have a positive opinion of the current Congress, unchanged since January.

In the November 2004 congressional ballot, the Republican Party elected 232 lawmakers to the House of Representatives, while the Democratic Party secured 202 seats. The Republicans also have a majority in the Senate, with 55 members in the 100-seat upper house.

In his Jan. 31 State of the Union address, U.S. president George W. Bush declared, "Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology. Since 2001, we have spent nearly $10 billion to develop cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable alternative energy sources—and we are on the threshold of incredible advances."

Earlier this month, Republican New Mexico senator Pete Domenici and Democratic New Mexico senator Jeff Bingaman—both members of the Senate Energy Committee—proposed a bill that would open 3 million acres off the Florida coast for oil exploration. A federal moratorium on all new off-shore drilling—established in 1981—will expire in 2012.

American voters will renew the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate on Nov. 7.

Polling Data
How would you rate the job the Congress is doing—excellent, pretty good, only fair, or poor?

Positive
Feb. 2006 25%
Jan. 2006 25%

Negative
Feb. 2006 71%
Jan. 2006 72%

Source: Harris Interactive
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,002 American adults, conducted from Feb. 3 to Feb. 7, 2006. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

jetsetlemming
02-18-2006, 04:40 PM
I don't like that poll. It gives four catagories to choose from, but only shows two groups, and it's only of 1000 people (for a national issue, that's a very small number to poll). It doens't say how excellent, pretty good, only fair, and poorly and devided among "positive" and "negative". Based on the normal readings of Bush's popularity, and considering how little people like congress generally at any time, the first three seem positive, with only poor being outright negative, and not that strong of a word anyway. Anyway, 25% seems high to me for people who like congress. Since when does anyone like congress?