Thread: 65% of voters would ax every Congress member

65% Favor Getting Rid of Entire Congress and Starting Over
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Let’s face it: Most Americans don’t have much use for either of the major political parties and think it would be better to dump the entire Congress on Election Day.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of Likely U.S. Voters say if they had the option next week, they would vote to get rid of the entire Congress and start all over again. Only 20% would opt to keep the entire Congress instead. Fifteen percent (15%) aren’t sure.

Of course, the Political Class strongly disagrees. While 84% of Mainstream voters would opt to get rid of the entire Congress, 64% of the Political Class would vote instead to keep them all.

Not surprisingly, 82% of Republicans and 78% of unaffiliateds say dump them all. Despite their party’s control of both the House and Senate, Democratic voters are fairly evenly divided: 44% say it’s better to keep the entire Congress, but 38% would prefer to give all the national legislators the heave-ho.

Thirty-eight percent (38%) of all voters have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party after its two years of controlling both the White House and Congress. But 53% view the Democrats unfavorably.

As for the party out of power but knocking on the door, just 29% view Republicans favorably, while 54% hold an unfavorable opinion of them.

Only 61% of Republicans offer a favorable opinion of the GOP, a figure perhaps reflective of the fact that most Republican voters believe their party leaders are out of touch with the base.

Seventy-six percent (76%) of Democrats have a favorable opinion of their party.

Among all voters, just three percent (3%) have a favorable opinion of both parties, while 18% view both unfavorably. Seventy-nine percent (79%) offer mixed reviews.

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on October 26-27, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Twenty percent (20%) of voters nationwide now say they are members of the Tea Party, with another 10% who say they aren’t members but have friends or family members who are. Sixty-one percent (61%) say they have no ties to the grass roots movement. This is comparable to findings earlier in the month.

Perhaps it’s no surprise that 88% of Tea Party members would choose to dump the entire Congress, but 57% of non-members agree with them.

Ninety-one percent (91%) of Tea Party members view the Democratic Party unfavorably, but only 56% hold a favorable opinion of the GOP.

A majority of voters not affiliated with either major party have an unfavorable opinion of both Democrats and Republicans.

Just 12% of all voters nationwide now think Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Sixty-one percent (61%) rate their performance as poor.

The number of voters who view Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Very Unfavorably have reached their highest levels yet.

Sixty-two percent (62%) feel it would be better for the country if most congressional incumbents were defeated next week. Just 27% think their representative in Congress is the best possible person for the job, and only 37% think their local congressional representative deserves reelection.

Most voters think their representative in Congress does not deserve reelection if he or she voted for the national health care law, the auto bailouts or the $787-billion economic stimulus plan.

After all, 62% believe that no matter how bad things are, Congress can always make them worse.

Voters remain closely divided over whether a randomly selected sample of people from the phone book could do a better job than their elected representatives in Congress.

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65% of voters would ax every Congress member

By S.A. MILLER Post Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:39 PM, October 29, 2010
Posted: 1:38 AM, October 29, 2010


Election 2010

WASHINGTON -- Democrats, Republicans -- who cares? Throw all the bums out of Congress!

That's what an overwhelming majority of Americans say, a new poll reveals.

A Rasmussen Reports survey released yesterday found 65 percent of likely voters would prefer to fire every member of Congress and start from scratch.

A whopping 82 percent of Republicans and 78 percent of independents told the pollsters they wanted to give everyone on Capitol Hill the heave-ho.

And despite the Democratic Party being in charge of both the House and the Senate, registered Democrats split on the question -- 44 percent said keep Congress as is and 38 percent said give them all the boot.

Only 20 percent of all voters wanted to keep the entire Congress unchanged.


"If you needed any more confirmation that Washington is perceived as a broken entity by the American people, well, this is it," said National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Ken Spain.

Neither party fared well on the poll's favorability meter: 53 percent of American voters dislike Democrats, and 54 percent dislike Republicans.

Only 61 percent of Republican voters had something nice to say about their party.

Rasmussen said that reflects "the fact that most Republican voters believe their party leaders are out of touch with the base."

Democrats did better among their voters, with 76 percent offering a favorable opinion of the party.

Despite the pervasive ill will in the electorate, Americans appear ready to punish Democrats and reward Republicans at the ballot box Tuesday.

The GOP leads Democrats by about 6 points on a generic congressional ballot of any Republican versus any Democrat, according to a Real Clear Politics average of recent polls.

A new Gallup poll shows Americans are firming up their choices faster than usual, and the trend favors Republicans.

Just 19 percent are "swing voters" -- either undecided (15 percent) or ready to change their mind (4 percent) -- and that's fewer than usual in recent midterm elections, the Gallup poll, released yesterday, showed.

At this time in the race in 2006, swing voters accounted for 37 percent of the electorate. In 2002, they were 27 percent.

Republican voters this year are firmer than Democrats in support of their candidates.

About 86 percent said they would "definitely vote" Republican, compared to 82 percent for Democrats, Gallup found.

Even though Republican voters are more enthusiastic and motivated this election, a new Bloomberg poll found they are also split about supporting their party's agenda.

They either are divided over or opposed to the policies and approach that Republicans have said they would offer once in control, particularly on cutting spending.

What's more, the poll showed that voters resoundingly want the parties to work together.

Polling trends in general have been bolstering Republican confidence for taking over the House.

Senate Republicans still face an uphill battle to take the 10 seats they need to capture the upper chamber, although big gains appear likely and could set up a GOP majority in 2012.


Throw the bums out

As control of the House and Senate hangs in the balance in Tuesday’s midterm elections, here’s the percentage of different voting blocs who say they’d prefer to get rid of all members of both houses and start over:

House

All 435 seats in the House of Representatives — including that of Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi are up for grabs Tuesday. 218 seats are need for control. Republicans need to pick up an 39 additional seats to take over — most prognosticators say that’s practically a done deal.

Senate

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is slightly behind opponent Republican rival Sharon Angle, and the GOP needs to gain 10 additional seats to take control, although most expert say that’s unlikely.


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I say vote in the third party to let the Dems and Repubs know we do not need them to run this country. I bet they would start changing their tune when they see their party lose money and clout and powers.