The average approval rating for Congress in 2012 was the lowest in Gallup’s 38 years of testing the question, the polling organization revealed Friday.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill earned an average approval rating of 15 percent last year, much lower than the 38 percent average approval rating since Gallup first began asking the question in 1974.
And the new year did nothing to make the public more optimistic about the legislative branch, with Gallup’s first poll of 2013 showing a mere 14 percent of the public approving of the job Congress is doing.
The PollTracker Average illustrates the anemic Congressional approval rating that spanned 2012.
