Toplines: Supreme Court/Congress Rating

Survey of 1,200 Likely Voters

March 28-30, 2008

1* Generally speaking, how do you rate the way that the Supreme Court is doing its job—Excellent, Good, Fair, or Poor?

7% Excellent

30% Good

42% Fair

18% Poor

3% Not sure

2* Okay, how do you rate the way that Congress is doing its job?

1% Excellent

12% Good

38% Fair

47% Poor

2% Not sure

3* Over the past year, has Congress passed any legislation that will significantly improve life in America?

12% Yes

59% No

29% Not sure

4* Over the next year, how likely is it that Congress will seriously address the most important problems facing our nation?

7% Very likely

32% Somewhat likely

41% Not very likely

17% Not likely at all

3% Not sure

5* Are most members of Congress sincerely interested in helping people or are they just interested in their own careers?

11% Helping people

72% Their own careers

17% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence