Sixty percent of likely voters want to replace all of Congress, down significantly from 78 percent in 2013, according to a poll by Rasmussen published Tuesday.
The new results confirm an overall trend in attitudes about Congress. Rasmussen asked respondents whether or not they wanted to completely replace Congress, filling every seat with a new member.
The high for this line of questioning in recent years was in 2013, when 78 percent of respondents reported they supported the idea, up from 68 percent supported the idea in 2012.
This year’s 60 percent represents a record low in recent years, indicating that although Congress remains largely unpopular with the American voter, the leadership of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is gaining respect from the American people and transferring to Congress.
A relatively small 17 percent reported they liked Congress the way it is, up slightly from previous years, with 22 percent undecided.
Rasmussen published Congressional approval numbers in July, where 11 percent of voters reported they felt Congress was doing a good job and only fifty-seven percent of voters reported Congress was doing a poor job, down from 60 percent at the start of the year.
A full twenty-four percent of registered voters reported that they were satisfied with their current representative in Congress, 45 percent of voters aren’t satisfied, and 31 percent remain undecided in the poll.
Rasmussen surveyed 1,000 likely voters from Sept. 8 through Sept. 11. The poll carried a margin of error of 3 percentage points in either direction.
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