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Obama Wars Title: Congress poll is Capitol hell Congress poll is Capitol hell Voters' support for incumbents hits historic low By MAGGIE HABERMAN Just when you thought Congress couldn't reach a new low, it did. Only a third of US voters think their Congress members have earned the right to get sent back next year -- a record-low number, a poll released yesterday shows. Thirty-four percent of voters queried think members of the House and the Senate ought to be re-elected -- while an astonishing 63 percent were in favor of throwing the bums out, the new CNN poll showed. That's the worst performance for Congress in the history of the network's polling -- the latest red flag for the floundering Democratic leadership as it heads into an anti-incumbent voter wave just eight months before the midterm elections. 10 WAYS YOUR REPS HAVE LET YOU DOWN IN DC BAYH: DC IS BRAIN DEAD EVAN'S BYE-BYE A REBUKE TO DEMS "This is not a good year to be an incumbent, regardless of which party you belong to," CNN polling director Keating Holland said. "Voters seem equally angry at both Republicans and Democrats this year." And the electorate is unsettled all around. Forty-five percent of the voters say they will back a Democrat in their congressional district, and 47 percent say they will go for the Republican -- whoever that may be in either case. When it comes just to the House of Representatives, just 51 percent of people believe the member for their district deserves to get re-elected, while 44 percent are giving their reps a thumbs-down, according to the survey. The numbers show no major party getting a strong advantage. But Holland said that fact "may hurt the Democrats more because there are more Democratic incumbents." He added: "It's a change from 2006, when voters concentrated their anger at GOP members of Congress." On the question of whether current members of the House ought to be re-elected, the numbers are lower than in 1994, when Bill Clinton's presidency suffered mightily as Republicans took control of Congress in a 54-seat swing. Right now, the Democrats hold a 255-178 edge in the House. The Republicans are pressing to find challengers for almost any Democrat in marginal districts, given new impetus after Scott Brown's Senate victory for the GOP in Massachusetts. President Obama isn't doing much to boost his party, either -- with his approval rating at 49 percent. Just 44 percent think he deserves to be re-elected. The survey was taken from Friday through Monday of 1,023 people and had a 3-percentage- point margin of error. Several members of Congress have expressed frustration over the partisan gridlock. "People are almost in a parallel universe," Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said yesterday. "They are not getting a common set of facts and most of the people they talk to are those who agree with them." maggie.haberman@nypost.com Read more: www.nypost.com/p/news/nat...TpC6x1wrhP##ixzz0foCTmRCm
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Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid have led us to the brink of another Great Depression, utterly gutted what little remaining faith in the political system existed. This can't be denied, and you can't blame it on Bush. They'be been in charge (Democrats) for almost four years now in Congress. In each of those years the deficits have risen, doubling in the last year from 700 billion to 1.4 TRILLION. What did we get? Higher taxation, record foreclosures, double digit unemployment, trade deficits that are both frightening and almost incomprehensible. Homelessness is rampant. Job creation has ceased to exist. Banks are not lending because they know the coming real estate bubble burst is within plain view. Are you better off today than you were one year ago? Simple question that Pelosi, Reid and Owe-Bama don't want you to even THINK about, let alone ask yourself and then answer.
#2. To: Badeye (#1)
"Voters seem equally angry at both Republicans and Democrats this year." Maybe you missed that part?
Yes, very much. We have hired back those we laid off, restored the salary cuts we made in January of 2009, and my stock portfolio is way up compared to a year ago.
MUCH.
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