Voters are fed up with Congress and want to throw the bums out.
That’s one takeaway from a Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday that shows a record 74 percent of registered voters would like to see most members of Congress defeated in 2014.
At this same point in the 2010 and 2006 midterm elections – which resulted in the House flipping party control – only about half wanted to see most lawmakers booted from office.
Voters always have a soft spot for their own member of Congress, as poll after poll shows. That’s still true today: 48 percent of voters in the Pew poll say they want to see their representative re-elected while 38 percent want a replacement.
Several polls over the last two weeks have shown Americans blaming both parties in Congress and President Obama, but they’re particularly upset by the actions of Republicans.
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