In a brief blog post on CNN.com, Dan Merica talks about the Congress approval rating and how it is at a new historic low. I thought it was interesting that there was this post after we talked about it on Monday that Congress has a horrible approval rating, yet a large number of them will still get reelected. The basic average is around 9% between the poll given to citizens and the poll given to the average citizen.

I don't understand how we can be so lazy as Americans. If we don't like something in the real world, we get it changed as soon as possible. Yet, even with a government shut down and the lowest approval rating ever, a majority of the incumbents will be reelected. If we keep reelecting the same people, nothing is going to change. I am not saying that people must vote for the opposite party, however maybe get a new candidate in the same party that is a little more towards the middle, that way we can have more successful bipartisanship. This country was founded on compromise, not on winning and losing.


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/12/poll-disapproval-of-congress-at-historic-high/?hpt=po_c2