CQPolitics.com - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell seems to think that the current congressional majority ranks as the most unpopular of all time.
“They’ve managed to achieve an astonishing thing, which is to have the lowest approval ratings anyone can find of Congress for history,” McConnell said Aug. 3. “And they have done it in a record short period of time of about seven months.”
McConnell, R-Ky., didn’t specify a particular poll or provide any footnotes, but a Gallup poll taken July 12 through July 15 found that 27 percent of those surveyed approved of Congress’ performance and 66 percent disapproved.
In 1992, the average approval rating was 18 percent.
But if it’s any consolation, senator, Democrats were in charge then, too.
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20070806/pl_cq_politics/howlowcanthepollsgoplentymoreroomatthebottomhistor yshows [link] 
08-06-2007, 12:20 PM
