Has congress ever had a high approval rating?

[pstokely]

People may like their senator or congresscritter, but they hate the rest of congress

[hobbit709]

1. I like my Congresscritter, I loathe and despise Carnival Cruz and Cornhole.

[TexasProgresive]

2. Well good for you

I don't like my (anti)-representative he's a smarmy git just like the senators.

[hobbit709]

3. Tom DeLay and the Lege tried 4 times to redistrict Lloyd Doggett out.

They failed each time and luckily I was still in his new district each time they changed it.

[TexasProgresive]

4. The got my guy and I am stuck with Flores.

[customerserviceguy]

5. Many decades ago, I think the answer was yes

But that was a time when Americans generally trusted most all of government.

[unblock]

6. congress is dominated by 532 people who represent other states and districts

and for whom you didn't even get a chance to vote for.

kinda figures you might not care for the result.

the 3 people who you do at least get a chance to vote for, you'd expect, on average, higher support for.

so the usual result of very low approval for congress overall yet rather higher support for people's own congresscritters actually makes sense.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. It certainly has been much, much higher than it is now. Here is a chart and such 1974 forward

It gets up into the 60's for approval at times.....I disregard the polling around the time of 9-11 as being about the times, not the persons or the legislative body, but there are other times of much higher approval for Congress than we have now....
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1600/congress-public.aspx