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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Because it's maybe the single most misleading stat ever. 14% approval is all Americans view of the whole congress. When you break it down further to the actual approval of congresspeople from their own constituents, the real approval rating for congress is much closer to 65%, and they generally return 90% of incumbents.
Basically, no one believes "their congressperson" is the problem, it's "everyone else's congresspeople" who are terrible. Gerrymandering also has a lot to do with it as well.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
It's always someone elses problem.
It's a by-product of a disconnected, unequal society.
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Part of this has to do with sheer ignorance too. In Kentucky for example the majority disagreed with Obamacare yet agreed with the ACA in pre-election polls
When all of the newly elected GOP campaigned on repealing Obamacare, the constituents in those states have basically shot themselves in the foot without knowing it.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...ling-obamacare