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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (52513)	1/16/2018 6:24:07 PM
From: Dracin72	Respond to of 362095

I'd go with that as well Wharf... These are 2014 Politifact numbers but yeah, basically the electorate keeps electing the same people they complain about but expecting a different result. Congress has 11% approval ratings but 96% incumbent reelection rate, meme says In the House, we counted 390 incumbents who ran on Election Day. Of those, four haven’t had their races called as of Nov. 10, so we’ll set them aside. Of the remaining 386 incumbents, 373 won, for a winning percentage of 96.6 percent. Meanwhile, in the Senate, 23 out of 26 incumbents won, with one more (Alaska’s Mark Begich, a Democrat) trailing in a race that has not yet been called, and another (Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu, also a Democrat) heading into a runoff. If you don’t include Begich and Landrieu, the combined House-Senate incumbent winning percentage is 95.4 percent. If you do include them, it falls slightly to 95 percent. politifact.com