Americans Expect More Partisan Congressmen

[struggle4progress]

<snip> Polling Data

This coming year, do you think Republicans and Democrats in Washington will work together more to solve problems, do you think they will bicker and oppose one another more than usual?

Jan. 2005 Jan. 2002

Work together 30% 53%

Bicker and oppose one another more than usual 59% 39%

Same as in the past 4% 5%

Don’t know / Refused 7% 3%

Source: Princeton Survey Research Associates / Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,503 American adults, conducted from Jan. 5 to Jan. 9, 2005. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

http://www.cpod.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=5599

[Zenlitened]

1. I sure as heck hope the Democrats representing me will be "partisan"

Making nice with abusive rage-aholics is never a good strategy in the long run.

[democracyindanger]

2. What a crappy question

The only opposite of "work together" is "bicker"? So when Dems stand up against the robbing of Social Security, they're just bickering?

Blecch.