Although House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) was the one ousted from Congress in a GOP primary defeat this week, a new poll finds that the other four top congressional leaders are comparably unpopular on the national stage.
The survey by HuffPost/YouGuv found that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are all seen more unfavorably than favorably by the general public.
Here is a snapshot of the findings, via HuffPost:
The poll surveyed 1,000 U.S. adults from June 11-13 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
If you insist on running government as a nursery school recess, is this surprising?
That big Washington swoosh you heard on Tuesday was Boehner heaving a huge sigh of relief …
Fewer knife stabs from the eric.
uh… actually… Pelosi and Reid are vastly less unpopular than are their Repugnican doppelgangers. The headline writer might have looked at the actual data contained within the article before he/she typed it.
Did you really mean to say something like “In the punch bowl of floating turds that is Congress, Cantor’s size and buoyancy dwarfs all competitors” ?
Note that Reid and Pelosi are 2.5 times more “very favorable” than McConnell, Boehner or Cantor. That’s important because the unfavorable ratings are almost all from the opposite parties in each case, which is expected.
Don’t forget that, according to the newest Tealiban nominee, Brat, anyone who works in government is by definition a ‘sinner.’ So there you have it.