re: I don't want to hear anymore BS about Trump's approval ratings when congress is below 15%

stale: obama did it

super stale: bush's fault

fresh: muh congressional approval

to spell it out explictly to, I'm mocking you for that weak-arse deflection

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re: I don't want to hear anymore BS about Trump's approval ratings when congress is below 15%

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You can't really compare an individual in his or her "home turf" with one person who represents 300+ million people. Congress has an approval rating..according to this poll..of 15%. According to the latest polls, the democrat party has an approval rating of 4.5% to 5%. Compared to Trumps approval rating of 87%, the dems look in trouble for 2018.

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Would be great if Trump was running against Congress.

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Actually, Trump isn't running against anyone, and won't for another 3 1/2 years. So come back with poll numbers then.
Wait, scratch that. The false polling from last election means they can't be trusted anyway!

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It's always nice to see some balance and context when giving the approval rating for the POTUS, so congress needs to be part of the "big picture" approval rating of the D.C. Brothel.

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Sure, and they are criticized heavily. HOWEVER, Congressional approval ratings represent something fundamentally different.

I mean I may disagree with a politician more than half the time. Based on that I should slightly disapprove. But maybe that person is likeable, or in the extremely rare case, honest and sincere. So I may actually approve afterall. So my view of single politician, is my view of a single politician.

Congress on the other hand, is an entity, with a large group who doesn't even pretend to share my views, and even a larger group of where my interests are supposed to be somewhere below a 300+ million other people.

And when congress doesn't get something done we don't like, by even one vote, and use only 1 out of 50 of our own party, then we don't remember the other 49, we remember that 1 vote. Just look at healthcare, for people who wanted it to pass, they don't care that or even remember the other 49 who supported they care about the 3, or even 1, who didn't. Those other 49 supported it just like Trump, and they have votes to prove it, and unlike Trump, they largely weren't elected to lead the party and nation. But they get included and Trump doesn't.

And even then, the outcome was probably ideal for the Ds, but they still don't approve of congress because they would prefer even more of their views.

It's just not the same thing.

O and Nixon's approval rating, up to the very end, was still at 27%. It should have been at about as close to 0 as possible, but somehow a single person can still have a not insignificant support.

Hillary Clinton would have higher approval rating than congress.

So it is clearly a fundamentally different comparison.

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Sure, and they are criticized heavily. HOWEVER, Congressional approval ratings represent something fundamentally different.

I mean I may disagree with a politician more than half the time. Based on that I should slightly disapprove. But maybe that person is likeable, or in the extremely rare case, honest and sincere. So I may actually approve afterall. So my view of single politician, is my view of a single politician.

Congress on the other hand, is an entity, with a large group who doesn't even pretend to share my views, and even a larger group of where my interests are supposed to be somewhere below a 300+ million other people.

And when congress doesn't get something done we don't like, by even one vote, and use only 1 out of 50 of our own party, then we don't remember the other 49, we remember that 1 vote. Just look at healthcare, for people who wanted it to pass, they don't care that or even remember the other 49 who supported they care about the 3, or even 1, who didn't. Those other 49 supported it just like Trump, and they have votes to prove it, and unlike Trump, they largely weren't elected to lead the party and nation. But they get included and Trump doesn't.

And even then, the outcome was probably ideal for the Ds, but they still don't approve of congress because they would prefer even more of their views.

It's just not the same thing.

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I appreciate what you're saying and I don't necessarily disagree but you're getting way too deep into the meaning of the OP. The OP was merely to show how the Enemedia is always looking for anything and everything to hammer Trump with, all I was trying to say is they (Trump/congress) all are in the tank poll wise. Trump however is actually more favorable than congress as a whole.

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Funny that you just don't get it. Isn't the point of bad poll numbers to demonstrate vulnerability in the next election? Seriously, in the grand scheme of things, what impact do these poll numbers have on the future of Cryin Chuck Schumer?

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You went off on a tangent that the OP was not intending. The OP has nothing to do with poll numbers concerning re-election of congress members or Trump. The OP was to show how the Enemedia/MSM only want to harp on Trump's poor favorability while ignoring the obvious terrible favorability of congress.

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Dumb. What would be great if Congress actually accomplished goals good for America long term.

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get rid of gerrymandering, and that might happen.