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Voters Continue to Have Strongly Negative Views of Congress

Most voters continue to give this Congress poor marks in its closing days, and they still don't believe the national legislature has passed anything to significantly improve life in America.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that just 11% give the current Congress good or excellent marks. Sixty percent (60%) say Congress is doing a poor job. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Those findings are little changed from those found just before Election Day. This session of Congress has never won any popularity contests, but in May of last year, 23% gave it good or excellent marks and only 44% rated it poor. Things have been downhill since the first of the year, however.

 Only 29% of voters believe Congress has passed legislation over the past year that will significantly improve life in America, while 53% disagree. Another 18% are undecided.
 

The number of voters who say Congress has passed such legislation jumped 11 points just after the passage of the national health care plan in March, but has hovered around 30% ever since.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on November 23, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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