Poll: Half of Americans think Congress is corrupt (CNN)

[struggle4progress]

POSTED: 4:16 p.m. EDT, October 19, 2006

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Half of all Americans believe most members of Congress are corrupt -- a figure that has risen 12 points since the start of the year -- and more than a third think their own representative is crooked, according to a new poll released Thursday by CNN.

According to the poll, a majority disapproves of how both parties are handling their jobs in Congress. Just 42 percent approve of how the Democrats are doing in Congress, while 54 percent disapprove. The GOP fares even worse -- only 36 percent approve of their performance in Congress, while 61 percent disapprove ...

... Americans are squeamish about electronic voting machines as they prepare to head for the polls. Sixty-one percent say they expect inaccurate results because of technical glitches, while two-thirds say it is likely that hackers or political operatives will prevent the machines from producing an accurate count ...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/19/congress.poll/

[Jacobin]

1. The other half were polled when asleep

[Demeter]

2. I Believe Most GOP Congressmen are Corrupt

And that they do the crimes because they have this GOPper legend that Democrats have been getting away with it for years (which simply isn't true, as any comparison of conviction rates and types of crimes would reveal....) and because they are simply not very nice people--when they aren't outright psychopaths!