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1. Congress approval rating plummets to 5%

   MSNBC ‎- by Michele Richinick ‎- 1 day ago

   Furloughed AmeriCorps employee Jeffrey Wismer sits alone on the Washington Mall on Oct. 8, 2013 as he calls on Congress to end the ...

    

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   Congress approval rating plummets to 5%

   Michele Richinick, @mrich1201

   11:55 AM on 10/09/2013

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   Furloughed AmeriCorps employee Jeffrey Wismer sits alone on the Washington Mall on Oct. 8, 2013 as he calls on Congress to end the government shutdown. (Photo by Jason Reed/Reuters)

   Americans’ approval of Congress, most notably the GOP, hit a second all-time low within two weeks as the government closure continues.
   Just 5% said they support the decisions being made by government leaders, while a whopping 83% disapprove, according to the Associated Press-GfK poll released Wednesday.
   A mere 10% of the public reportedly approved of Congress hours before the shutdown began last week. The rate was the smallest percent in history that favored Congress, as of Oct. 1.
   Sixty-two percent of the public believes Republicans are “almost all/a lot” to blame for the current government shutdown. President Obama and Democrats both received 49% of the criticism, followed by House Speaker John Boehner with 48%, the Tea Party with 43%, and Sen. Harry Reid with 39%.
   Republicans again earned a 17%-approval rating from Americans, the same number from the Quinnipiac University poll conducted last week. Seventy percent of the public disapproves of the party now, down from 74%.
   And just 23% of the country favors Democrats, a decline since the party’s rating stood at 32% last Tuesday. Sixty-two percent disapprove.
   Americans even favored such usual unappealing topics—witches, zombies, jury duty, hipsters, Wall Street, the DMC, and the IRS—over Congress, according to a survey released Tuesday by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling. The government body tied with cockroaches and toenail fungus, but beat the controversial pop-icon Miley Cyrus.
   

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   The president on Tuesday suggested a short-term truce, asking Republicans to vote to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling as long-term negotiations continue. But Boehner affirmed that won’t happen.
   In turn, 53% of the people surveyed disapprove of Obama’s job dealing with the shutdown. The country agreed that both the president and Republicans aren’t cooperating “enough” with each other. Fifty-two percent said Obama needs to negotiate more, and 63% reported Republicans needing to do so.
   

     

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