Are you satisfied with your Representatives....?

[Flabbergasted]

Poll question: Are you satisfied with your Representatives....?

November is not too far off and I'm wondering how our Democrat and Republican incumbents will be faring next year. Are low congressional approval ratings going to translate into an ouster of the old for a wave of fresh congressional faces.

My House Representative is (D) Earl Blumenaeur who I'm voting for because he's a snappy dresser.....



and, though he is not well known, a good liberal democrat.


My Senate Representatives are (D) Ron Wyden and (R) Gordon Smith. Ron is boring but always votes liberal; Gordon gotta go.

If they are not up for election assume they are for this polls sake.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. My conman is a stupid repuke

who supports Bush 110% and doesn't like Muslims. I just hope the local Dems actually WORK at ousting him instead of rolling over and playing dead.

[Debi]

2. Bruce Braley and Tom Harkin?!

:loveya: who could go wrong with that duo????

[TransitJohn]

3. I'm from Wyoming

So all 3 are rabid fucking bushbots. Be voting against all three.

[Flabbergasted]

17. My sister lives in Fort Collins.

I just did a search and realized how close Laramie and F.C. are. I drove down that way years ago, in the eighties. It was summer and it was so fucking hot.

[TransitJohn]

24. Maybe hot in Fort Collins

...but Laramie is 2000 feet higher....makes a huge difference, especially in the spring, when their trees are budding a full 5 weeks before ours. :hi:

[pdxmom]

4. I'm in Oregon, too, and you forgot Smith...who has GOT to go. And

since right now, as an incumbent, he's only polling at 38%, so it's possible we can see him go. Then I can be happy with all my Congress critters.

[Flabbergasted]

9. Thats true.

[BootinUp]

5. We need a poll option: I live in a Red State, so nevermind.

[Flabbergasted]

13. Option 1 I suspect. nt

[BootinUp]

15. ok

but assholes is barely strong enough. lol.

[sniffa]

6. Delahunt

i'm proud to vote for him. :thumbsup:

[bunnies]

7. Judd Gregg & John Sununu

No elaboration needed.

On edit: wait.. house reps? Carol Shea-Porter. She can stay. :)

[TomInTib]

8. Not sure.

Because I don't know who my House Rep is (State or National).

But I know our Mayor and Town Councilpeople personally.

And I like every one of them. Does that count?

[Flabbergasted]

10. Whatever floats your yacht Tom.

[GenDem]

11. NO - - my representative is Tom Reynolds -- NYS 26th

I will do everything I can to unseat him.

And replace him with this guy --

Iraq War Veteran and Army Captain - Jonathan Powers - Democratic candidate for
Congress


My Senators are Clinton and Schumer -- I'm fine with them.

[Flabbergasted]

12. Good for you.

[hyphenate]

14. My rep

is Jim McGovern (D) and my Senators are Kerry and Kennedy. No worries. :)

On the other hand, when I lived in SoCal, my rep was David Dreier. Talk about a prick!

[Catchawave]

16. Goodness, I have a love/hate relationship....

My CD rep is Thelma "caught red handed" Drake (R-Bushbot)


...but I love me my Senator Jim Webb, and soon to be Senator Mark Warner in 2008, to replace Senator John Warner !

[DrDan]

18. Tom Feeney . . . .nothing else to say . . . .

[Flabbergasted]

19. Lol...nt

[cali]

20. Pat Leahy, Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch. n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. MInneapolis: Congressman Keith Ellison (yay!)

and Senators Norm Coleman (who needs to be soundly defeated next year) and Amy Klobuchar, who is supposedly a Dem, although she votes with the Bushies a bit too often to suit many of her constituents. Unfortunately, she's in till 2012!

By the way, having been an Oregon resident for 19 years, I'm a big Earl Blumenauer fan, too. He was against the Iraq War back when Clinton was bombing the place, and he's one of the best friends of mass transit in the entire Congress.

[Flabbergasted]

25. Portland Mass transit is rocking though expensive.

We got trains running all over portland and the bus system is awesome too.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Here in Minneapolis, it's expensive and inadequate

There's no real system, just a series of bus lines that aren't well coordinated with one another and ONE--count it, ONE--light rail line that opened in 2004.

[Flabbergasted]

32. We put in some major expansion in the last few years.

When did you move?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. Summer of 2003

I know that the North line is finished and that the streetcar has been expanded.

Here they're still just talking about linking downtown Minneapolis and downtown St. Paul with light rail, which is such a no-brainer, especially since the line would pass through the University of Minnesota campus.

[Flabbergasted]

39. They built a tram up to OHSU more or less solving the parking nightmare.

It was REALLY exensive but great for the college and the city.

That sounds like a great line between Minneapolis and St Paul.

[Flabbergasted]

40. Dupe

[rpannier]

22. Phil Hare (D-IL) is my Congressman and I do like the job he has done

He's a big step up from Evans (D) who was pretty worthless

[AndyTiedye]

23. Barbara Boxer YAY!, DiFi BOO!, Anna Eshoo yeah ok

[asdjrocky]

26. I have Doris Matsui, I'm luke warm on her.

She has voted against war funding in the last couple of votes, and we give her thumbs up on that. My problem is we have Doolittle on one side of us, Charlie Brown -who I did some phone banking for- lost by only 3 points in 06, and Lungren on the other side. Durston will be running against him in 08.

Once the primary is decided, I'll be focusing my activism on getting Doolittle & Lungren out of office, because these punks are in my own back yard.

The Presidential election is a big giant huge change, but if we don't get what we want there, and let's face it, we rarely do, then you can make great change by acting locally.

This was a good question.

[NoPasaran]

27. I like my Congressman, Lloyd Doggett

Senators Cornyn and Hutchison, not so much.

[Vanje]

28. My congressional guys are GREAT....

....for amusement.

Congressman Bill Sali (R-Idaho) : Even Idaho's Republicans refer to him as an "idiot" in public.
Every time he opens his mouth , he proves them right.

And , of course, who could forget the shoe-tapping stylings of our own Larry Craig!!!!!!!



(Do I win something?)

[Flabbergasted]

29. Lol

Yes you win. We are sending you a used pair of tap dancing shoes. Enjoy.

[MadBadger]

31. Mine is Rush Holt

I like Holt, and I think he's doin a fine job.

[bklyncowgirl]

48. Me too. I am very satisfied and will donate & work for the guy.

I wasn't entirely thrilled with his electronic voting bill but at least he tried to do something which is more than you can say about the rest of Congress.

He's been staunchly opposed to the Iraq war from the getgo. He was also one of the few Democrats to vote against tabling Kucinich's Cheney impeachment issue.

[MadBadger]

52. He was also one of the congressmen who had balls and didnt vote yea for the christianity resolution

[bklyncowgirl]

53. Yes, I noticed that. No doubt he thought it was a silly waste of time.nt

[yourout]

33. Luckier than most....Feingold and Kohl in the Senate and Baldwin in the House

[MadBadger]

35. I kind of have that.

At school

[rucky]

36. Boehner n/t

[Diamonique]

37. John Conyers!

In the Senate I have Carl Levin who I like, and Debbie Stabenow who is way too compromising for my taste.

[surfermaw]

38. My rep. is Patrick McHenry

would vote against him twice if I could.

[Occam Bandage]

41. I like my Senators and my Congressman.

Dick Durbin, Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson Jr.

[Infinite Hope]

42. Jim Oberstar!

Voted against the war, moderate-but-liberal-leaning.

[PurityOfEssence]

43. Great Rep, Great Senator, Tiresome Appeasing Twit Senator

That would be Xavier Becerra (great guy, voted against IWR, publicly supports Dodd), the fabulous Barbara Boxer and the soporific Dianne Findspine.

[CitizenLeft]

44. I voted mixed bag, even though they're 2 to 1 great

My rep is Stephanie Tubbs-Jones. :loveya:

My Senator is Sherrod Brown. :loveya:

And then there's Voinovich. :puke: And shame on him. He's not just some mindless Bush-sniffing idiot like Inhofe or Kyl. He's very intelligent and actually has a conscious and wants to be a moderate. Shame on him all the more for buckling to political pressure instead of following his principles like he used to. He was actually a good mayor for Cleveland. But on the national scene, he's an ass and he knows it.

[MonkeyFunk]

45. well

I have Feinstein (bleh), Boxer (yay) and Sam Farr (super yay!) So I'm 67% satisfied.

[JeffR]

46. I'm a Georgia voter

in other words: are you kidding me??

I'd sooner be represented by a roadkill hedgehog than by uber-DINO John Barrow and the two festering boils on the body politic who call themselves Georgia's senators.

I'm especially bitter about Barrow, who we elected with the thinnest margin in America last time around, and whose voting record has run the gamut from disappointing to disgusting.

[Kucinich4America]

47. It's a sad thing when I'm in a blue state with two "Democratic" senators and a "Democratic" rep

And I still have to say "mixed bag" :evilfrown:

Granted, some of you in red states might have worse mixes, but at least you knew that when they got elected.

[Perry Logan]

49. Democrats

[Perry Logan]

50. Democrats in Congress have maintained a significantly higher approval level than Republicans.

"While majorities disapprove of the performance of both parties in Congress, Democrats
in Congress have maintained a significantly higher approval level than their Republican
counterparts. And this month's USA Today/Gallup poll shows Americans continue to hold
favorable views of the Democratic Party (54 percent favorable, 37 percent unfavorable) and
decidedly unfavorable views of the Republican Party (40 percent favorable, 50 percent
unfavorable). The ABC News/Washington Post survey finds a smaller difference but the same
dynamic — majorities holding favorable views of the Democrats (51 percent favorable, 45
percent unfavorable) and unfavorable views of the Republicans (39 percent favorable, 56 percent
unfavorable).

"Most importantly, Democrats continue to enjoy a massive and sustained advantage in the
generic congressional contest. Three polls this month show Democrats holding an average lead
of 11 points (51 to 40 percent) in the generic congressional ballot. This advantage has been
remarkably consistent throughout the year, even in surveys that show specific Republican
candidates running even or ahead of Democratic candidates in the presidential race. The
Democratic advantage in the generic congressional contest one year before the 2006 election was
also 11 points. With Democratic incumbents polling well ahead in their districts and a
combination of retirements and electoral trends putting dozens of Republicans seats in play, a
sustained advantage of this size portends another strong Democratic wave in next year's
elections.
http://www.democracycorps.com/weekly/Public_Polling_Report_-_November_30_07.pdf

[nickinSTL]

51. I voted that I'd vote against them...

I guess I should have read more clearly. I assumed "Representatives" meant the House, and my rep I WILL vote against...if he has competition. John Shimkus of Illinois. What I think he is best known for is supervising the page program in the House.

My Senators are fine, though. Can't do a lot better than Obama and Durbin.

[ellisonz]

54. Neil Abercrombie is pono.

[bhcodem]

55. Love 'em

Bruce Braley and Tom Harkin here from Waterloo. What's not to love!

[terrya]

56. The very honorable Jan Schakowsky Illinois-9th is representing me.

She can have the job as long as she wants. I'm very proud to have her as my Congressional Rep.

My Senators are Durbin and Obama. And while both have done some things I don't agree with, I'm also pleased, overall, to have them representing us in the Senate.

[Blue_In_AK]

57. I have just one representative,

the horrible Don Young, who I've been working my butt off to ,get rid of for well over a year now. I think he may be toast next year, with any luck at all. He may even be indicted.

As for the senators, Stevens and Murkowski, not much better, but only Ted is up for election next year. He too may not make it.