AMERICANS DON'T WANT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS RE-ELECTED, ACCORDING TO POLLS

Just 8 percent of Americans want the members of Congress re-elected, according to a CBS News-New York Times poll taken nine months before roughly one-third of the Senate and the entire House face voters.

The Feb. 5-10 survey found 81 percent of respondents saying the lawmakers shouldn't’t receive another term.

By 80 percent to 13 percent, Americans said members of Congress are more interested in serving special interests than the people they represent.

Also, 75 percent disapproved of the job Congress is doing, the highest level since 74 percent said they disapproved in October 2008. Congress’s job approval rating was 15 percent in the current survey; it was 12 percent in October 2008.

Another poll released today also showed electoral discontent. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey found that 31 percent of U.S. voters don’t want their representative to Congress re-elected. That’s higher than in 1994 and 2006, when midterm elections shifted party control on Capitol Hill.

Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Edward Kennedy has revealed that he is retiring from Congress.He has had struggles with depression and substance abuse.





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