In a New York Times/CBS Poll release today, 61% of respondents disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job. An astonishing 77% of Americans believe members of Congress don't deserve to be re-elected. In what is a more telling statistic, 48% of respondents said that their representative does not deserve to be re-elected, as opposed to 39% who believe they should. The poll and accompanying article can be found here

For those of us on the campaign trail this is not surprising. We have been hearing for months how unhappy voters are in the 6th district with Roscoe Bartlett and the Republican controlled Congress. Voters expected smaller government. They got the biggest government in history, growing 30% in just the past 4 years. Voters expected a lower national debt. They got the largest debt in history. Voters expected the government to get off their backs. They got the most intrusive and incompetent government we have seen since the beginning of the 20th century.

Robert