Poll: Dems hate Ryan even more than they hated Gingrich

Published April 17, 2017 7:21pm ET



Pew Research Center’s newest study of survey data, titled Public Dissatisfaction with Washington Weighs on the GOP, contains one data point I never thought I’d see. Among Democratic voters, the disapproval rating for House Speaker Paul Ryan (75 percent) is substantially higher today than Newt Gingrich’s was in April 1995 (61 percent), a few months after Republicans took over Congress in the 1994 elections and Gingrich was elected speaker.

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