I don’t know how so many people somehow got the 2007 Confidence in Institutions poll and the June 2007 Congressional approval poll mixed up. Maybe it was the same-day release of the Congressional numbers for both; maybe it was the focus on the former poll, and maybe it was wishful thinking. I can only hope it wasn’t me; I did put both in the same post and then focused on the Confidence poll. We need to tighten up before the mid-20s approval July numbers come out; otherwise, you’ll be wondering how Congress got its groove back when it didn’t, and I’ll be out here spitting into the hurricane.
Let’s go over the approval numbers again. 24% of those surveyed by Gallup approved of the job that Congress is doing a good job, and 71% disapproved. That spread was not matched by the Pubbies until after the November election. Surprisingly, nay, shockingly, approval among fellow Dems was only 29%. That’s right; not even 1 in 3 Dems support their own party. That is not exactly a new phenominon either; at no point this year did a majority of Dems support their own party’s performance in Congress.
