Latest Presidential Tracking Polls 2012

More Blame Democrats than Republicans

2/12/2010, by Proloy Bhatta

HIGHLIGHTS

46 percent say Democrats are not considering Republican views when pushing legislation.
37 percent say the GOP is misusing the filibuster to block legislation.
Approval rating for congressional Democrats and Republicans tied at 28%.

The approval rating for congressional Democrats has dropped to below 30% for the first time in any poll... now they are in a tie with congressional Republicans.

"American voters now give both parties equally bad grades, disapproving 63 - 28 percent of Congressional Democrats and disapproving 61 - 28 percent of Republicans."

Earlier in the week, one of the commentators on MSNBC felt disgusted by the fact that Republicans could say "No" to everything and then be trusted just as much as the Democrats.

But this poll gives us insight as to why.

Americans do not trust most of what government does. Just a tad under one-in-five voters (18%) think the government does what is right all or most of the time. So by trying to do something, these Democrats are at odds with the very pessimistic voter sentiment.

Only 2 percent of voters, including 1 percent of Republicans and 1 percent of independents, think the government does what's right almost all the time.

Another 16 percent, including 10 percent of Republicans, 12 percent of independents and 29 percent of Democrats, think government does right most of the time; 54 percent believe it does so only some of the time and 27 percent say government does what's right hardly ever.

Three percent of women and 7 percent of blacks say government does the right thing almost all the time, compared to 1 percent of men and whites.

And Americans are more likely to blame the Democrats for not getting legislation passed as opposed to the Republicans using the filibuster.

46 percent say Democrats are not considering Republican views when pushing legislation while 37 percent say the GOP is misusing the filibuster to block legislation.

CBS conducted a poll from the fifth to the tenth of this month asking adults nationwide whether or not they supported the filibuster. Sentiment was divided. 44% said that it should remain as is while 50% thought it should be changed.

Here is a link to Quinnipiac's poll.