POLI 2051 Midterm: Exam 3 Notes (got the best grade in class)
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Congress approval at an all time low at 10% Princeton, nj -- ten percent of americans in august approve of the job congress is doing, tying last february"s reading as the lowest in gallup"s 38-year history of this measure. Eighty- three percent disapprove of the way congress is doing its job. Congress approval was 30% in gallup"s first measure using this question wording in april 1974, and has averaged 34% across the more than 230 times it has been measured since. Congress approval has been below 40% since early 2005, and below 20% every month since june 2011 -- dropping to 10% in february of this year and again now. Before 2007, congress approval had been below 20% only twice -- in 1979 and 1992. The highest congressional job approval in gallup"s history was 84% in october 2001, a month after the sept. 11 terrorist attacks on new york city and washington, d. c.
