The American people are idiots

[Sacred Jellybean]

If Congress's approval rating is 11% on a good day (and I'm aware that this rating accounts for those who are unhappy with Congressional Democrats as well), then why was over 90% of that Congress reelected?

If you just poll people as to whether they approve of Congress as a whole, 89% will say no. But if you poll them on their local state reps, they'll approve. They just hate congresspeople from other states.

I'm a little bit more optimistic about 2016 as long as Hillary stays ahead in the polls. She's not my first choice, but I'll take her. (I'd personally prefer someone who doesn't think of the word "liberal" as a pejorative and who is willing to call out the Republicans for their BS like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, but few people even know who they are.)

Agreed completely.

Voter turnout in this election was the lowest since WWII. People are just jaded with all sides. Republican voters hate Obama with an irrational vehemence that ensures they'll turn out and pull the knob for any schmuck with an ® by his name. Hopefully 2016 we can turn things around. In the mean time, let's waste 2 years with more attempts to repeal Obamacare and investigations into Benghazi.

I wish Republican voters would see through this nonsense, but this is a blindly ignorant block of voters. I wouldn't normally paint so many people with a broad stroke of brush, but honestly, if you don't see the Republicans' cynical attempts to oppose the president and dig their heels in the sand in the way of any progress, logic, or growth, if you just don't get it, you probably never will.