Congressional Democrats are getting lower ratings from voters than their Republican colleagues, and according to a new Rasmussen survey, “even many Democratic voters don’t care much for their own party’s congressional members.”
The stinging numbers were released Monday by Rasmussen Reports, which revealed, among other things, that a recent telephone and online survey found only “29% of Likely U.S. Voters rate Democrats in Congress as doing a good or excellent job. By comparison, 38% of voters rate congressional Republicans as doing a good or excellent job.”
In a separate survey, Rasmussen found that 43 percent of likely voters think the country is headed in the right direction, while 51 percent think we’re on the wrong track. This compares to only 30 percent thinking the U.S. was going in the right direction at this time one year ago, during the final Spring of the Joe Biden administration. Sixty-four percent said the country was on the wrong track.
According to Rasmussen’s congressional survey, “roughly two-thirds (66%) of Republican voters give good or excellent ratings to GOP members of Congress, less than half (47%) of Democratic voters rate congressional Democrats as doing a good or excellent job.”
Among Independent voters, only 18 percent give good or excellent ratings to Democrats in Congress, compared to 27 percent who say the same of congressional Republican, Rasmussen said.
For Capitol Hill Democrats, this is just the latest in a series of bad news revelations and reports. The party has appeared in disarray for weeks, with embattled Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York reportedly facing something of a popularity contest with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
Democrats got terrible ratings for their behavior during President Trump’s address to Congress several weeks ago.
Rasmussen noted partisanship has a lot to do with this survey result.
“Voters are almost evenly divided over the question of whether Congress should support or oppose President Donald Trump’s policy agenda,” Rasmussen said. “Forty-six percent (46%) say Congress should support Trump’s agenda, while 49 percent want Congress to oppose Trump’s policies.
“Partisanship explains much of this division,” the polling firm noted, “with 73% of Republicans wanting Congress to support the Trump agenda, while 74% of Democrats say Congress should oppose Trump. Among unaffiliated voters, 48% think Congress should oppose Trump’s policy agenda and 44% believe Congress should support Trump.”
“It is clear that many opponents of Trump are dissatisfied with Democrats in Congress,” Rasmussen noted, “while Trump’s supporters are much happier with the GOP. Among voters who believe Congress should oppose Trump’s policy agenda, 37% rate congressional Democrats as doing a good or excellent job. By comparison, congressional Republicans get good or excellent ratings from 72% of voters who think Congress should support the Trump agenda.
“Voters 65 and older are most likely to rate Democrats in Congress as doing a poor job,” according to the veteran polling firm.
