August 18, 2014 by Sam Rolley 0 15
Americans are fed up with elected officials, according to recent polling data which finds that just 19 percent of likely voters believe that most members of Congress deserve to be re-elected.
On Monday, Gallup reported that the number of Americans who feel that most members of Congress should be replaced is the second highest since the polling agency began asking the question in 1992.
“These negative evaluations of Congress have historically been related to lower rates of incumbent re-election in midterm elections and a higher turnover of congressional seats,” Gallup reports.
To better understand what the numbers could mean for the upcoming midterm elections, will to reelect sitting members of Congress is 14 points lower than in 2010 and 19 points lower than in 1994, both years that saw midterm shakeups due to voter dissatisfaction.
The flipside to the high rate of disproval, however, is that 50 percent of voters say that their particular Congressional representative deserves to be re-elected.
“This percentage essentially ties with the response to this question in 2010, and is just slightly higher than the 48% in 1992,” Gallup notes. “So while this measure is historically low, it has not dropped to the record-low depths of the ‘most members’ question.”
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