Congress approval ratings since 1990

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Yet incumbents almost always get re-elected.

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It's "the other guy's congressman/senator that's the problem, not mine."

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Yet incumbents almost always get re-elected.

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People don’t support congress as a whole. But by and large they don’t think their Senators and Representatives are the problem so they continue to vote them in.

Corporate pork.

So their highest approval was when they were initiating the Gulf War and implementing things like the Patriot Act.

Are those the sort of halcyon days you are longing for?

Another relevant graph:



I find it interesting that more people turned out to vote for Congress than President in the early days.

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No one can fix it because the majority of the voters like how it needs to get fixed.

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No one who can will attempt to fix it because what will they campaign on next election cycle?

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Refresh my memory....

What the hell happened in 2002 to get it so high?

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Almost certainly the patriotism after 9/11

That was a nice little bump they got post-9/11, wasn't it? This is exactly why they love war, and exactly what Eisenhower warned the world about...



We fell into that trap and now it's too late to climb out. We should have known better but allowed the acts carried out on 9/11 to cause is to trade individual liberties for the perception of "temporary" security through the Patriot Act, which was something against which Benjamin Franklin warned us.

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So their highest approval was when they were initiating the Gulf War and implementing things like the Patriot Act.

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Everything and everyone was relatively popular after 9/11

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Yet incumbents almost always get re-elected.

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Here’s the problem and it will take a lomg slow grind to fix.

You have an incumbent RINO vs a Commie. Prior to that you have a Primary and the incumbent RINO has all the system money plus all the money they pilfered during their term. So most win Primary.

Now your choice is a RINO vs a commie. The commie will never reach across the aisle and 100% votes with their party vs the RINO will reach over and give the commie a handjob occasionally.

Its very hard to beat entrenched incumbents. The only way is to pick them off a bit at a time where money comes in bigly for the outsider. It will never be fixed in our lifetime and we need to pick the worst ones and even if not your state, gang up nationally and support the challenger financially.

Thats the problem. Vote RINO or vote commie. Until someone enters race and gets bog backing.