Both CNN, and the Hill buried the lede in my humble opinion.
BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL
Congress’s approval rating has slipped to 27 percent, according to a new poll, as lawmakers feud over government funding, the debt limit and two massive spending bills.
When asked if partisan members should be reelected, however, the results differed. Forty-six percent of respondents said that most Democratic members of Congress deserve reelection, while only 37 percent of those polled said most Republican members of Congress deserve another term.
The low approval rating for Congress comes after a contentious few weeks that saw it face a number of legislative crises relating to President Biden’s agenda, government funding and the debt ceiling.
In the poll 54% said Democratic members of Congress so not deserve reelection, but a whopping 63% said Republican members of Congress do not deserve reelection.
By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy
(CNN)As congressional Democrats negotiate the size and scope of a budget bill that could significantly remake the social safety net in the United States, a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds 75% of the party's rank-and-file prefer a bill that goes further to expand the social safety net and combat climate change over one that costs less and enacts fewer of those policies (20% favor a scaled-back bill).
Support for an economic bill that enacts all of the proposed social safety net and climate change policies is broadest among liberal Democrats (84%), but two-thirds of moderates and conservatives in the party share that view (67%).
Amid the ongoing debate over key pieces of his agenda and on the back end of a challenging stretch in the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are divided over President Joe Biden's approval rating. In the new poll, 50% approve while 49% disapprove, largely unchanged from a CNN poll conducted in August and September.
With most Senate Republicans, and ALL House Republicans voting against raising the debt limit, despite a chorus of economists warning that not raising it would be a disaster for both the US economy, and the world economy, the proportion who think Republicans don’t deserve reelection may even be higher now, than they were on October 7th through 11th when this poll was done.