Just 13 percent of Americans, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday
Just 13 percent of Americans, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday, pat Congress on the back and say, “Good job!” It’ll thus be disgruntling for many voters to see most of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives celebrate their re-election come November. Indeed, historical House re-election rates hover around 90 percent, not dropping below 85 percent since at least 1964.Nike Air Max Sale How can a body so majorly disdained, at least recently, almost assuredly punch its ticket for another two-year term?
The answers, political scientists say, are complex. But if Nike Air Trainers need a simpler reason now, look locally at voters’ perspectives. In Maryland’s 8th District, constituent Charles Ray says his representative, Chris Van Hollen, is “among the few, in an institution that seemed to be cowed by a few loud-mouth bullies, who seemed willing to swim against the tide.” Meanwhile in Illinois’ 5th, Isa-Lee Wolf says of Mike Quigley, her House delegate: “My congressman gets my support because he's swimming upstream in a river with a non-cooperative current.”
There’s something to that swimming metaphor. Nike Trainers across the country see their House member as a fish out of water — a heroic figure in a Sisyphean struggle against an evil entity. It’s almost Greek in its tragedy. “There is something of a paradox in that Congress, as an institution, is deeply unpopular,” Peter Hanson, a University of Denver Nike Trainers UK science professor who studies polarization, tells Yahoo News. “But people tend to like and respect their individual member of Congress.”