Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has the lowest net favorability rating nationally of all congressional leaders, according to a new Gallup poll released Thursday.
Gallup found McConnell’s net favorable rating at negative 17 percentage points, followed by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) with negative 16 percentage points. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) were tied with net favorables of negative 14 percentage points each.
Thirty-seven percent of those surveyed on McConnell’s favorability said they had never heard of him or had no opinion of him.
The congressional leader who had the highest favorable percentage rating, the poll found, is Pelosi with 33 percent. But Pelosi also has the highest unfavorable rating of all four congressional leaders —49 percent. Eighteen percent said they had never heard of her or had no opinion.
Interestingly, Boehner and McConnell’s net favorability ratings are higher among tea partiers, the poll found. Boehner’s net favorability is 32 percent among tea party Republicans surveyed in the poll. McConnell’s net favorability was 33 percent among tea party aligned Republicans, the poll found. That’s somewhat counterintuitive given that Boehner and McConnell have been the target of tea party aligned outside groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund which has strongly and repeatedly criticized both Republican leaders as insufficiently conservative.
The Gallup poll was conducted April 24 to 30 among 1,513 adults ages 18 and older. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
(H/t: The Hill)
Meh, those sound like they’re probably all within the margin of error.
Do they ask these people who dont know who any of the Congressional leaders are “Are you alive?”
One can deduce from that poll that the TP “leaders” who have been shown recently to be more interested in cutting spending in DC than in their own personal salries…might have lost touch with the ordinary people. Also, what rock would you have to hide under not to know who these people are, seriously???
Say what you want, Pelosi was probably the most effective speaker in recent times. You never would have the crap that Bonehead puts up with. She knew how to count votes and deliver votes…thats what a SOH is supposed to do, and hopefully she will get another chance to show them, once again, how its done.
Polling the obvious then getting the, I have no clue, answer, just about sums it up.
We assume that the general public is somewhat informed and that by being informed they could give basic opinions regarding their leaders.
These results are based on emotions and ignorance. How can you begin to compare Pelosi’s successes to Boehner’s failures and get near the same numbers? It’s a popularity poll at best and if the pollster’s were after real information they would’ve had to feed the real facts about each leader to the polled to hopefully get results based on their records, not just which team their on.
Yes McConnell is bad but his numbers shouldn’t even be in the same hemi-sphere as Pelosi’s.
For McConnell, perhaps it is because of that strange protuberance that passes for a chin. Very odd looking man.
I assume that about 80 percent of citizens have never heard of any of the Congressional leaders …