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MartiniMan
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Are congressional approval ratings meaningless?
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1/18/2013 9:19:51 AM
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You know I can't remember the last time Congress as a whole had approval ratings much above the IQ of a snail darter. Yet year in and year out incumbents get reelected which tells me that this approval rating may in fact be meaningless. The advantage with POTUS approval/disapproval is it focuses on an individual and their job performance. Not so with Congress.
What I think would be a more meaningful approval rating would be an amalgamation of the individual approval ratings of your Senators and Representatives. For example, my Representative is Tom Price. I would give him a very high approval rating. My Senators and Isakson and Chambliss who I would overall rate favorably but not as high as Tom Price. If I were in GF's district...God forbid as I would never pay the high taxes.....I would rate my congressman very low as he thinks too many military personnel are going to sink the island of Guam but would rate my Senators the same as above. GF on the other hand would rate his congressman very high because he too worries about Guam tipping over but he would likely rate Tom Price very low because he is an intelligent, articulate conservative that does not worry about Guam tipping over. And I assume GF would likewise not rate our Senators very high.
Maybe I am overthinking this but I just find the approval ratings for congress to be mostly meaningless in terms of anything that really matters. They just don't seem to translate into different results. If they meant something you would think we would see incumbents lose in droves every election and they just don't.
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MrHodja
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Are congressional approval ratings meaningless?
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1/18/2013 10:18:49 AM
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I've often wondered about the same thing...the perception that Congress as a whole sux, but "my Congressman is a good guy/gal, and my Congressman fights for what is right....its those other bullies that sour the milk".
I am afraid that it may take an intervention of some sort to put things back on track....like an attack, be it physical, diplomatic, or financial, against the United States as a wholef. The attacks on 9/11/2001 are an example, although I pray that it isn't that type of attack that unites us, Dems, Repubs, Indepenents, Libertarians together to fight against a common enemy. I guess a parallel would be brothers and sisters who squabble amongst themseves until someonme outside the family attacks one of them - at which time the siblings lay aside their differences and band together to deal with the outside threat.
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GoneFishin
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Are congressional approval ratings meaningless?
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1/18/2013 10:33:50 AM
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From MM's favorite pollster Ramussen
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Most GOP voters continue to believe that congressional Republicans are out of touch with the party base, while Democrats are happier than ever with how their team is performing in Washington, DC.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 30% of Likely Republican Voters believe Republicans in Congress have done a good job representing their party’s values over the past several years. Sixty-three percent (63%) of GOP voters think congressional Republicans have lost touch with the party’s base throughout the nation.
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Scottie
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Are congressional approval ratings meaningless?
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1/18/2013 10:41:13 AM
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My senator is Chambliss and I'm not so sure I would give him much more than meets expectations rating due to his caving on the debt ceiling without pressing harder for meaningful spending cuts.
As for getting those DUCKS back in a row I have difficulty believing that anything short of a confrontation by a large and angry electorate in Washington would accomplish anything. In point of fact, I think that only an occupation along the lines of Occupy Wallstreet would get any lasting response.
Those in Washington are like a classroom of first graders. If the teacher walks in and displays anger they will sit down and shut up. Soon as the teacher leaves, business as usual.
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MartiniMan
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Again, these mean no more to me than the others
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1/18/2013 12:36:59 PM
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And yet the vast majority of GOP congresspeople were returned to office just two months before, including the supposedly unpopular Boehner. Explain to me why Tom Price should give a rat's behind whether some liberal in Fulton County, say you GF, thinks he's doing a bad job? This is the media using push polls to create headlines but at the end of the day does it mean that the voters in my district will reject him? I think not.
And look at Pelosi as yet another example. Despite having abysmal ratings as Speaker of the House she easily won reelection every time and continues to do so. My question still stands.......do these polls mean anything? I am inclined to think not and there are better polls that could be devised to focus more on how likely voters rate their Senators and Representative and combine that into a combined favorable/unfavorable numbers that actually have some value.
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widgethater
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Again, these mean no more to me than the others
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1/18/2013 1:54:16 PM
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I really think they are re-elected because of a lack of an alternative. The devil you know is betrter than an unknown, but maybe now we can see that this is not really the truth.
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alahusker
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1/18/2013 7:45:02 PM
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interesting topic.. seems we hate our congressional folks on a national level, but love them at home,, occurs to me the problem is lack of choice,, will vote for Sessions in a heartbeat, but less enthusiastic about Shelby.. but what's the choice?? a tea party challange would be refreshing.. just saying.. probably not thinking.. tb
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comrade
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Are congressional approval ratings meaningless?
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1/18/2013 9:43:58 PM
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Yes.
They are meaningless.
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