when the Democrats in congress have a 35% approval while the Republicans only have a 22% approval?
http://www.pollingreport.com/congress.htm
2007-05-30 03:01:48 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Because they are uneducated and don't realize that historically Congress has never had high approval ratings.
The only oddity of Congress' approval rating is that it is higher than the presidents approval rating, that doesn't happen very often.
2007-05-30 03:16:37 · answer #1 · answered by Mario Savio 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The approval rating of the Democratic Congress is low because they haven't dealt with Bush in the same way that Republicans did with Clinton.
If Bush was a Democrat, a Republican Congress would have tried and hung him by now.
2007-05-30 10:18:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The same reason Dems like to point out the low approval rating of any Republican President. Its all about trying to make the opposite party look bad.
2007-05-30 10:13:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it demostrates that the Democrats are not very good and people are not satisifed with them.
People also are not satisfied with Republicans and Republicans are equally as bad at running the country.
Maybe it is time for America to wake up and throw these 2 parties out on their ear
2007-05-30 10:26:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It stems from being constantly reminded of the fact that Bush's rating is so low. By pointing out the low approval rate of the democrats in congress a truer picture of the discontent of the electorate is provided. In other words, just because the president does not enjoy high support, don't think the other guys are who the American public are in favor of.
2007-05-30 10:07:14 · answer #5 · answered by espreses@sbcglobal.net 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because Republicans will say anything to try to discredit the Democratic-controlled congress and they know that most people won’t bother to look into the facts.
2007-05-30 10:09:53 · answer #6 · answered by quest for truth gal 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
To HIDE the LOW APPROVAL rating of their love child - G.W.BUSH.
2007-05-30 12:05:44 · answer #7 · answered by Your Teeth or Mine? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, in their mind, there is no other way to justify Bush's 28% approval rating.
2007-05-30 10:09:55 · answer #8 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
You obviously haven't been paying attention. Dem's have been spewing about Bush's approval rating for 5 years now. Just pointing out the facts.
2007-05-30 10:06:50 · answer #9 · answered by only p 6 · 5⤊ 4⤋
It puts them in the same situation as the current administartion.
To be fair, the Dems have been ineffective on the war.
2007-05-30 10:11:07 · answer #10 · answered by Triumph 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋