At least all of the partisan fighting hasn’t prevented Congress from achieving one thing together — a record-high number of Americans now disapprove of their own congressman or woman.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that just over half the public — 51 percent — disapprove of the job that their own member of Congress is doing. This is the first time this number has risen above the 50 percent threshold in the quarter-century of Post-ABC polling on this question.
Just 41 percent of voters approve of the job their member of Congress is doing. It’s even lower than the 43 percent achieved last year after the government shutdown.
Congress has been unpopular for a while now, but this is first time the American public has transferred those views onto their own congressmen and women.
A recent Pew poll, for instance, showed 69 percent of people wanted to unseat most members of Congress, but only 36 percent felt that their own congressman should be included.
These new numbers indicate that the public might have finally had enough.
At least people can’t accuse them of being a “do nothing Congress” anymore. They have apparently done everything in their power to tank approval ratings across the board.
