In the first survey since John Boehner was elected speaker of the House of Representatives, favorable ratings for the Ohio congressman have risen to their highest levels to date. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, now House minority leader, remains the most unpopular congressional leader as she has been for the past two years.
While the midterm elections initially brought some good will to the voter ratings for the top congressional leaders, the subsequent month seems to have taken it away. Ratings for the four leaders as the current session of Congress draws to a close have now fallen back to their pre-election levels, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters.
House Republican leader John Boehner has been regularly in the news since Election Day as the likely next speaker of the House, and that coverage has helped push his favorables to a new high. But all the major congressional leaders seem to be benefiting from a little good will since the elections.
With midterm congressional elections just a week away, the number of voters who view Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Very Unfavorably have reached their highest levels yet.
With less than six weeks to go until Election Day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains the most unpopular of the four top congressional leaders as she has been since this session of Congress began early last year. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a close second.
After receiving a small boost in ratings from their party’s voters last month following the passage of the national health care law, Democratic leaders in Congress now earn favorability marks more in line with those found in previous months.
Following Congress' passage of the health care bill, voters view House Speaker Nancy Pelosi more favorably than they have in months. Voter opinions of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader John Boehner are up slightly, too, after all three scored record unfavorable ratings the month before.
Congress' top leaders are feeling the heat from voters this month, as a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows three of the four reaching or matching their highest unfavorable ratings of the past year.
In a rare bit of good news for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, it seems the more people who know about him, the more there are who like him.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid favorable ratings slightly dipped this month while House Minority Leader John Boehner received a small bounce, but voters overall have not changed their views on their congressional leaders.
Despite months of haggling over health care reform, voters continue to view leaders in Congress in the same light. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains the most well known – and most disliked – of the legislature’s top leaders.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got a bit of reprieve from the voters after a tumultuous August recess for most members of Congress.
The Inside-the-Beltway furor over what Nancy Pelosi knew about the CIA’s use of waterboarding and when she knew it doesn’t seem to have changed voters’ opinions of the House speaker.
Twenty-three percent (23%) of likely voters now say Congress is doing a good or excellent job, representing the legislature's highest rating since May 2007.
Americans have a little more confidence in the honesty of the average congressman this month, but they’re less confident that Congress as a whole will address the serious issues facing the nation.
Sixty percent (60%) of U.S. voters now have an unfavorable opinion of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including 42% Very Unfavorable, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. A growing number of her doubters seem to be fellow Democrats.
Nearly two months into an historic session of Congress wrestling with one of the nation’s severest economic crises, voters have not changed their opinions of major congressional leaders from both parties.
Fourteen percent (14%) of likely voters now give Congress good or excellent marks, representing the legislature’s highest approval ratings since last February.
Approval of Congress' job performance is down to single digits again for the first time since early September.
Though just 12% of voters give Congress good or excellent job approval ratings, it’s the highest ratings for the legislature since mid-May.
