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Bluetus

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4. Happy to oblige
Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:13 PM
Monday
https://news.gallup.com/poll/708722/disapproval-congress-ties-record-high.aspx

Is Gallup good enough for you? If you want to say it is more like 75% unfavorable, that's OK with me. The point remains. Why would anybody listen to the people whom 3/4 of the public thinks are doing an unfavorable. That's not bashing. That's just reality. Denial gets us nowhere.

There are many other polls that say people have a higher opinion of THEIR representative. Be that as it may, being 75% or 86% unfavorable means that something is fundamentally wrong. And personally, I am a lot more willing to listen to people like Graham Platner, David Hogg, AOC and others who are willing to talk in specifics about where we have lost our way.

Bottom line, being marginally more favorable than Republicans is not a real great position when neither party gets much above 25% favorable. Don't you think it would be smarter to change what we are doing for that a majority of Americans would have a favorable view?

And if you don't think so, should I accuse you of bashing Democrats like Hogg, Platner and AOC? Let's not threaten each other. Let's look for a more successful path forward.

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