I don't think that qualifies as a month old?

I swear it said September 20-24 when I clicked on it.

It is a new poll!

thanks

Thought I was going crazy.

of the way congress is doing its job.

hmmm.

Overall, do you approve, disapprove, or neither approve nor disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job.

It's always "Congress". How about doing a Congressional poll that asks by Party? And Republicans should be noted as the majority Party, Democrats as the minority. That might start giving Republicans pause about their plans to investigate Clinton. At least the polling over time might begin to get these losers to do the business of passing legislation that the vast majority want them to do.

It's just getting at the phantom generic preference. ask it any way you want, 12% is damning for a party that controls congress.

It could be zero though. And it can be worded any way you want.

It won't move the republican needle until they have the minority leader position.

period.

just saying.

Congress is a generic term that implies the voters feel the same about both Parties performance. Only 1 Party gets to set the agenda in Congress and that is the Party in majority. Asking the voter a generic question like House and Senate gives cover to Republican malfeasance and allows the narrative to be b0th parties are failing the Amer8can taxpayer. The truth couldn't be more obvious. You and I and most DUdes follow this stuff on a daily bas, but a significant majority of voters don't.

Asked which party they would prefer control Congress.

Dems won that one also.

But it won't move the repugs needle of concern until they lose. Until then, it's just noise.

It is not "Congress", but the individual parties. By masking the real issue of who is to blame for crappy governance in our Federal Government, we cannot expect the casual political observer to know who is to blame for the complete breakdown of the House and Senate in doing their job.

Start asking a simple question. Do you blame House/Senate Republicans or Democrats for the problems in Washington. Let's start measuring both Parties performance. It is NOT Congress...it is a Party issue that is creating a lack of getting anything done.

so if they ask the question "If you don't believe that congress is working, which party do you blame".. or something to that effect

It breaks down roughly along party lines. Self identified republicans simply won't say it is the republicans fault.

So it doesn't tell us much. But they will say if they don't believe the congress is working, which leads to sentiment for change.

You don't get my point and I really don't give a shit that you don't.

Are the polls being manipulated to tighten up to turn it into a watchable race after several weeks of "Hillary has it in the bag"?

That means if it's close one poll does not tell you much
Better to look at many polls
Doubt Nevada is going For Trump

that showed the race tightening and neck & neck a month or so back

the polls know they have inherent biases, but nobody wants to be the pollster that ends up 8 points out. So they all tend to converge in the last two weeks, which happens to be the window that poll watchers use to grade pollsters after the election.

Pollsters with a good grade get more work. Nobody remembers Quinipiac had a +4 R lean for 15 months, only to end up within 2 points of the the pack at the end.

They don't care about being right as much as they care about not being an outlier at the end.

I see +15 not 13.

+13 head to head.

I like that 51% number in a 4-way race