Sunday, December 1, 2013

Federal Government Approval Ratings



 Jobsanger

Much has been made of the recent drop in the president's approval ratings, especially by those on the right -- and it is true that those ratings have dropped recently. According to a new Economist / YouGov Poll (taken between November 23rd and 25th of 1,000 nationwide adults, with a 3.8 point margin of error), the president's approval is now about 37% -- as low as it has ever been.
But I feel it is important to point out that those ratings are still much higher than those of Congress, which currently rests at a miserably low 6%. And while the public is still pretty angry with everyone in Washington, they still blame the Republicans most for the government's inability to get anything done -- particularly the inability to fix the economy. The approval rating for the congressional Republicans is at 24% -- about 13 points lower than the president, and 11 points lower than the congressional Democrats.

13 comments:

  1. In other words, government isn't popular right now.

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    1. Not quite. Republicans are far less popular.

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  2. So the President is doing wonderfully as long as you're grading on a curve.

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    1. No, in popular opinion he's doing poorly. But this chart does put in in perspective, don't you think?

      Lately, I've noticed you have a harder time agreeing to anything.

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    2. Mikeb, the farther you move away from facts and logic, the less agreeable people are with you.

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    3. Oh, I'm the one who's changed?

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    4. Mikeb, as people get to know you, they realize just how unreasonable you are.

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    5. As people get to know Greg, they understand what a criminal liar he is.

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    6. I haven't changed that much, Greg. Even my escalation from The Famous 10% to 35% to 50% wasn't so much a change of heart or a sliding toward increased unreasonableness as it was the simple correction of a mistake I made in the earlier posts. I'm pretty steady really.

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    7. Mikeb, you are consistent, I'll give you that. Consistently wrong, consistently on the side of violation of rights, consistently on the side of control, but consistent--for what that's worth.

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    8. Greg's record as a consistent liar and coward, is the most consistent thing on this blog.

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    9. Greg, I'll take that as a compliment. Of course, it's at odds with some of your previous personal attacks in which you tried to point out my supposed inconsistencies. I guess I can't return the compliment to you.

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    10. OK, Mikeb, you're consistently wrong in a variety of ways--better?

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