Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Thursday, June 06, 2013

Congress Approval Poll Shows Only 6 Percent Rate Lawmakers Good Or Excellent

Just 6 percent of voters give Congress a positive job rating, according to polling released Wednesday.

One percent think Congress is doing an excellent job and 5 percent think it's doing a good job, a Rasmussen Reports survey found. Twenty-six percent rated Congress' performance as fair, and 64 percent said it's doing poorly.

Voters were only slightly less lukewarm toward their own representatives: 33 percent said their representatives deserve to be reelected, while 36 percent said they don't and 31 percent weren't sure.

"Many in Washington claim that people hate Congress but love their own Congressman," the poll's release says. "However, just 24% believe their own representative in Congress is the best possible person for the job. Forty-one percent (41%) disagree, while another 36% are not sure."

Thirty percent of voters said their own representatives care about what they think, compared to 16 percent who said most Congress members care what their constituents think.

HuffPost Pollster's chart, which tracks multiple public polls, puts approval for Congress at less than 12 percent, with 68 percent of the public disapproving. That's actually an improvement from January, when nearly three quarters disapproved. (The chart doesn't include Rasmussen's polls, because they ask respondents to rate Congress on a four-point scale of "excellent, good, fair or poor," rather than whether they approve or disapprove.)

Original Article
Source: huffingtonpost.com
Author: Ariel Edwards-Levy

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