Government Shutdown Poll

GOP Approval Rating Bottoming Out

We’ve already established than Congress has a lower approval rating that hemorrhoids and dog poop, but the Republican party itself is also bottoming out according to the latest Gallup poll.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the Republican-controlled House of Representatives engaged in a tense, government-shuttering budgetary standoff against a Democratic president and Senate, the Republican Party is now viewed favorably by 28% of Americans, down from 38% in September. This is the lowest favorable rating measured for either party since Gallup began asking this question in 1992.

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The last time Republicans were anywhere close to being this unpopular they had just finished impeaching President Bill Clinton over a blowjob. Even the worst moments of the Iraq War don’t come close.