WASHINGTON - July 27, 2011 - Voters are more convinced than ever that most congressmen are crooks.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 46% of likely U.S. voters now view most members of Congress as corrupt. That’s up seven points from June and the highest finding yet recorded. Just 29% think most members are not corrupt, and another 25% are not sure.
Similarly, a whopping 85% of voters think most members of Congress are more interested in helping their own careers than in helping other people. That’s a record high for surveys stretching back to early November 2006. Only 7% believe most legislators are more interested in helping others.
These findings come at a time when voter approval of the job Congress is doing has fallen to a new low. Just 6% of voters now rate Congress' performance as good or excellent. Sixty-one percent think Capitol Hill legislators are doing a poor job.