Seen on Rolling Stone. Wow - the Democratic Party previously had a 21% approval rate, and guess what, that has dropped to 19% now!
Only 19 percent of respondents to a new Quinnipiac University poll approve of the way the the party is handling their job in Congress
According to a Wednesday poll released by Quinnipiac University, approval of congressional Democrats is down to a historic low of just 19 percent. Seventy-two percent of those polled said they outright disapproved, while 10 percent didn’t give an opinion.
“This is a record low since March 2009 when the Quinnipiac University Poll first began asking this question of registered voters,” the university wrote.
Even among registered Democrats, approval for the minority party is underwater: “39 percent approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job, while 52 percent disapprove and nine percent did not offer an opinion,” the poll found. This is compared to 77 percent of registered Republicans who approve of the way their party is performing in Congress.
“If the approval numbers for Republicans are bad … then the approval numbers for Democrats can be characterized as flat out terrible,” Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement released along with the survey results.
A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released earlier this week also found the Democratic Party trending in the wrong direction, with an approval rating of 40 percent and a disapproval rating of 60 percent, with both numbers worse than they were in June. “Democrats are doing a good job throwing jabs at the administration but that’s not helping them with their own image, which remains in the cellar,” Mark Penn, chair of the Harris Poll, told The Hill in an email.
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