HOW LOW CAN IT GO????

....Congress's approval rating plummets as elections approach: From USAToday Blog:

Gallup: Approval rating for Congress matches lowest ever recorded

The approval rating for Congress is now "the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974," Jeffrey Jones of the Gallup Poll reports today.
According to Jones: "Just 18% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 76% disapprove, according to the August 13-16, 2007, Gallup Poll. That 18% job approval rating matches the low recorded in March 1992, when a check-bouncing scandal was one of several scandals besetting Congress."
As he also notes, the Democratic-led Congress has had a very brief honeymoon and stands lower in Americans' eyes than President Bush:
Currently, 32% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing as president, a far cry from the record-high 90% he received in September 2001. Bush's current job approval rating is just three percentage points above his lowest.
There was a slight interruption in the downward trend in congressional approval ratings at the beginning of this year when party control changed hands from the Republicans to the Democrats following last fall's midterm elections. In January 2007, 35% of Americans approved of Congress, a significant increase from the 21% who approved of Congress in December 2006. That December rating tied the lowest in the 12 years the Republicans controlled Congress from 1995 to 2006.
But that "honeymoon" period for the new Democratically controlled Congress was brief, as its job ratings dropped below 30% in March 2007 and have now fallen below where they were just before the Democrats took over

Remember those numbers Pilgrims --- fewer than one out of five American Voters approve of the job Congress is doing!!! But I'll bet a nickel to a half eaten donut that 97% of the incumbents that choose to run again this fall get elected... go figure? Maybe we are getting the government we deserve-----