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Rasmussen: 59% Of Voters Would Replace The Entire Congress

by Doug Mataconis @ 4:46 pm on October 7, 2008.

Rasmussen is out with another one of those polls showing that the American public doesn’t much like Congress as an institution:

Congress was front and center in the national news last week and the American people were far from impressed. If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 59% of voters would like to throw them all out and start over again. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 17% would vote to keep the current legislators in office.

Today, just 23% have even a little confidence in the ability of Congress to deal with the nation’s economic problems and only 24% believe most Members of Congress understand legislation before they vote on it.

And, there’s even a finding that would make William F. Buckley, Jr. proud:

Only half (49%) believe that the current Congress is better than individuals selected at random from the phone book. Thirty-three percent (33%) believe a randomly selected group of Americans could do a better job and 19% are not sure

Notwithstanding these revolutionary sentiments, however, you can rest assured that in November, once again, incumbent Congressmen and Senators will be re-elected at rates that would have made the Soviet Politburo blush.