House members rank next to last in a new Gallup survey of honesty and ethics, barely edging out perennial cellar dwellers: car salespeople.
In the latest survey, just 12% of Americans ranked the ethics and honesty of House members as high. For car salespeople it was 8% and for senators just 13%.
As usual, the winner was nurses, at 85%.
Journalists were near the bottom of the pack at 28% with a very high ethics rating.
“The public’s low levels of belief in the honesty and ethical standards of senators and members of Congress may be a contributing factor in poor job approval ratings for the legislature. No more than 30% of Americans have approved of Congress in the past 10 years,” said the survey analysis.
And as for journalists, the rating showed another dip in their honesty and ethics rating. Said Gallup, “Americans’ assessment of the honesty and ethics of journalists fell by five percentage points. There was previously a 10-point increase in Americans’ belief that this profession is honest and ethical, from 23% in 2016 to 33% in 2018 — but this most recent drop to 28% returns journalists to levels last seen in 2015.”
