49% Think Neither Party in Congress Represents the People

[bobbyw24]

Voters are more convinced than ever that neither major political party in Washington, DC is on their side.

Now roughly one-out-of-two Likely U.S. Voters (49%) think it’s fair to say neither party in Congress is the party of the American people, up six points from a year ago. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 32% say it’s not fair to characterize the two parties that way, while 18% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here).

Male voters believe more strongly than female voters that neither party in Congress is the party of the people. Whites are more than twice as likely as blacks to think that’s true.

But then blacks are twice as likely as whites to think the Democratic Party has a plan for where it wants to take the nation. A plurality (49%) of white voters feel the Republican Party has a plan for the future, but 64% of black voters disagree.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/september_2011/49_think_neither_party_in_congress_represents_the_ people

[DamianTV]

This number should be MUCH Higher...

http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2011/09/16/18/09/BiK2k.Sm.91.jpg

[Carole]

^What Damian TV said. :confused:

[Pericles]

That poll would indicate we are halfway there ....

[nobody's_hero]

Yeah, well, this would be important if those 49% of the people actually put their votes where their mouths are.

I mean, if we are truly at half of the U.S. population without faith in either party, then having a 3rd party steam-roll the competition would have already happened.

But as election day nears, the propaganda starts and the establishment starts pushing the 'lesser of two evils' meme.

[ronpaulfollower999]

This number should be MUCH Higher...

http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2011/09/16/18/09/BiK2k.Sm.91.jpg


http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-15-2011/the-congressional-approver

[anaconda]

Only 49%?

[NewRightLibertarian]

in a related story, 51 percent of Americans are morons

[PreDeadMan]

no political party represents "the will of the people" because there is only individuals and individuals are different from each other =p

[oyarde]

And the other 51 % pay no Fed tax except social security

[Rothbardian Girl]

Actually, I think usually the "will of the people", unfortunately, seems to reflect a general sentiment that the "morons in DC should get their butts together and compromise". It usually means finding a way to maintain the status quo and to kind of "will all the trouble away", in a sense. I think only a small percentage of that 49% see the problem in that "moderacy" has actually gotten us to this point, not so-called fringe ideologies like the Tea Party.

I don't know. I wouldn't exactly see this as a blessing, in other words.