Poll: More Republicans Than Democrats Approve Of Congress

Mass

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Mon Sep-24-07 07:25 AM
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Poll: More Republicans Than Democrats Approve Of Congress

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Poll: More Republicans Than Democrats Approve Of Congress
By Eric Kleefeld - September 20, 2007, 2:47PM

Now this is curious. In the latest Gallup poll, more Republicans approve of the job Congress is doing than there are Democrats who approve. According to the poll, 37% of Republicans approve of Congress' performance, compared to 23% of Democrats and 14% of independents, with an overall rating of 24% approval and 71% disapproval.

This is odd, of course, considering that both houses have Democratic majorities. But on second thought, the current Congress has passed President Bush's funding requests for Iraq, passed his FISA bill, and has given the White House exactly what it wanted on a host of other issues. So what do Republicans really have to complain about?

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Demeter

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Mon Sep-24-07 07:28 AM
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1. Exactly!

It's still a Republican Congress, because there are too many DINOs and too many Dinosaurs who think they are elder statesmen when they are merely old fools.

And then there's the DLC, which should be annihilated in the next election...

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Mon Sep-24-07 07:30 AM
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2. In Congressional approval polls we must remember both major parties are represented

It is wrong to automatically assume that a person who feels negatively about the current Congress is someone who harbors that feeling about the Democratic leadership.

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Toots

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Mon Sep-24-07 08:33 AM
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3. Well the Democratic leadership did something to lower their approval among their constituents

Only eight months ago Democrats were on top of the world and had extremely high approval ratings among other Democrats. Now it is Democrats that disapprove highly of what they have not attempted to accomplish. It is the leadership that I blame. It is statements like "Impeachment is off the table" that stun me. Why give up the farm before even asked to do so? Democrats have proved themselves to be unable to govern because they are still patting themselves on the back for winning the Majority.

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Lasher

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Mon Sep-24-07 08:42 AM
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5. Yes, that is true.

I myself disapprove of some things congressional Democrats have done. Fresh on my mind is the amendment to condemn of Moveon.org, for which many Democrats voted. But if Congressional approval is lower than presidential approval, that does not automatically go to say that Democrats are less popular than our Republican president. That is my point.

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Mon Sep-24-07 08:41 AM
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4. republicans know a congress of paper tigers when they see one. nt

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Mon Sep-24-07 08:47 AM
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6. Republicans probably approve the GOP in Congress

hnging in there on the war and stopping Democrats.

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