[BITList] Fwd: News Alert: Disapproval Rating of Congress at a Record 82 Percent, Poll Finds

[Michael Feltham]

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Thursday, August 4, 2011 -- 6:31 PM EDT
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Disapproval Rating of Congress at a Record 82 Percent, Poll Finds  
The debate over raising the debt ceiling, which brought the nation to the brink of default, has sent disapproval of Congress to its highest level on record and left most Americans saying that creating jobs should now take priority over cutting spending, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

A record 82 percent of Americans now disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job — the most since The Times first began asking the question in 1977, and even more than after another political stalemate led to a shutdown of the federal government in 1995. 
More than four out of five people surveyed said that the recent debt ceiling debate was more about gaining political advantage than about doing what is best for the country. Nearly three-quarters said that the debate had harmed the image of the United States in the rest of the world. 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/us/politics/05poll.html ?emc=na