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What is the senate approval ratings during this government shutdown?

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What is the senate approval ratings during this government shutdown? Does anyone know? I ask because it seems that its either the president's approval rating or congress's approval rating that gets mentioned in the news, but not the senate.
 
I am assuming congressional approval covers both houses.
 
The Senate divided by the House is undefined because the House is zero..
 
What is the senate approval ratings during this government shutdown? Does anyone know? I ask because it seems that its either the president's approval rating or congress's approval rating that gets mentioned in the news, but not the senate.

I agree with Redress - polls relating congressional approval ratings include both houses of congress. Your question is for the pollsters who don't ask the question separately. I'm guessing there's good reason - probably, if they polled about the two houses separately, the liberal media would lose their "Republican House" bad story line.
 
I agree with Redress - polls relating congressional approval ratings include both houses of congress. Your question is for the pollsters who don't ask the question separately. I'm guessing there's good reason - probably, if they polled about the two houses separately, the liberal media would lose their "Republican House" bad story line.

Well that is an interesting theory based on nothing but wishful thinking...
 
What in the **** does that have to do with either the topic or what I said?

That lack of leadership from Obama and having an Obama yes man running the Senate will cause gridlock in Congress, Congress will not accomplish much and stupid people will blame all of Congress.

It could be worse, Nancy Pelosi could be in charge of the House and who knows how many 10,000 page bills that nobody has read would have been passed in the House and Harry Reid would rubber stamp and send to Obama who lied about waiting 72 hours before signing any bill into law.
 
No, that is just good sense. The theory about why there are no polls on each house.

Phew!! I'm glad the one time you made sense and I recognized it wasn't going to cause you too much concern.

As for the reason they don't poll each house separately, have you got a better theory? Do you seriously believe that Harry Reid and the Democrat obstructionists in the Senate are popular?
 
That lack of leadership from Obama and having an Obama yes man running the Senate will cause gridlock in Congress, Congress will not accomplish much and stupid people will blame all of Congress.

It could be worse, Nancy Pelosi could be in charge of the House and who knows how many 10,000 page bills that nobody has read would have been passed in the House and Harry Reid would rubber stamp and send to Obama who lied about waiting 72 hours before signing any bill into law.

Which again has jack **** to do with the thread topic nor what I wrote.
 
Phew!! I'm glad the one time you made sense and I recognized it wasn't going to cause you too much concern.

As for the reason they don't poll each house separately, have you got a better theory? Do you seriously believe that Harry Reid and the Democrat obstructionists in the Senate are popular?

I duuno why. I ask not going to make up reasons just to fit my narrative though.
 
I duuno why. I ask not going to make up reasons just to fit my narrative though.

Well, let's forget "narratives" OK. Do you think that if the Democrat Senate, led by Harry Reid, was demonstratively more popular than the Republican House, led by John Boehner, that someone wouldn't have polled this already, particularly the abundance of Democrat funded/leaning pollsters?
 
Well, let's forget "narratives" OK. Do you think that if the Democrat Senate, led by Harry Reid, was demonstratively more popular than the Republican House, led by John Boehner, that someone wouldn't have polled this already, particularly the abundance of Democrat funded/leaning pollsters?

There are an abundance of republican funded/leaning pollsters as well. And yert we don't hear that the house is more popular than the senate. What does that tell you?
 
Congress: Democrats


10/9-13/13

Approve 31%
Disapprove 62%
Unsure 7%

Don't remember the leading parties numbers being so low before.
 
What is the senate approval ratings during this government shutdown? Does anyone know? I ask because it seems that its either the president's approval rating or congress's approval rating that gets mentioned in the news, but not the senate.

the senate is part of congress which consists of two chambers. But I get your drift as all the polls have regardless of the phrase which is wrong actually is only asking about the house and the presidency. I did see one poll which used the term Reid and the Democrats, but I can't find it now as that was last week and several polls have happened since. Now I have seen some polls use the phrases, Congressional Republicans and Congressional Democrats which I assume encompasses both the house and the senate, but I do not ever remember seeing that asked those polled their view on the senate only.
 
Well, let's forget "narratives" OK. Do you think that if the Democrat Senate, led by Harry Reid, was demonstratively more popular than the Republican House, led by John Boehner, that someone wouldn't have polled this already, particularly the abundance of Democrat funded/leaning pollsters?

The issue isn't popularity, it's unpopularity and I understand why you feel this way..I would too..
Tricky Dicky Rule #1--Drive up their negatives.
 
There are an abundance of republican funded/leaning pollsters as well. And yert we don't hear that the house is more popular than the senate. What does that tell you?

It tells me that the House isn't popular. But unlike the media who pushes these polls, it doesn't tell me that they're demonstrably less popular than the Senate although the media wishes to leave everyone with that impression. Can you deny that every reference to polls on congressional approval ratings begins or ends with a reference to Boehner and Republicans and no reference at all to the Democrats and the Senate?
 
The issue isn't popularity, it's unpopularity and I understand why you feel this way..I would too..
Tricky Dicky Rule #1--Drive up their negatives.

Who knows what you're talking about, but one thing is clear - Obama doesn't have even half the intelligence and political acumen of Nixon
 
Congress is generally unpopular. The problem is that the reason they are unpopular has to do with which party people perceive to be in control and to blame.

Republican Party Favorability Sinks to Record Low

Self-identified Republicans are more than twice as likely to view their own party unfavorably (27%) as Democrats are to see their own party unfavorably (13%). The GOP's unfavorable rating among Republicans is up eight points from September, compared with a one-point rise in Democratic Party unfavorables among Democrats. These findings may be consistent with the widely circulated narrative that the Republican Party is internally splintered on how best to handle the budgetary negotiations.

Which means these polls are meaningless. Democrats say congress sucks because they think Republicans make it suck. And vice versa.
 
If you're going to tell me you don't remember Tricky Dicky and his crew inventing the 'drive up their negatives' and 'drive down their turnout' memes, I won't bother you any more.
Who knows what you're talking about, but one thing is clear - Obama doesn't have even half the intelligence and political acumen of Nixon
 
I agree with Redress - polls relating congressional approval ratings include both houses of congress. Your question is for the pollsters who don't ask the question separately. I'm guessing there's good reason - probably, if they polled about the two houses separately, the liberal media would lose their "Republican House" bad story line.

That is what I am honestly thinking. As far as your average voter is concerned congress means every elected official in DC who is not president. While me, you, and everyone else on this forum know that there is senators and congressmen. Because I would think that if the senate ratings were all that high then the liberal media in general would be saying senate approval rating 50%, 55% or some other number.
 
I am assuming congressional approval covers both houses.


Maybe thats true but they seem to be using the results to mostly attack congressional republicans, not senate democrats.
 
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