Poll: Congress's favorable rating at 25-year low, unsurprisingly

Among all Americans, just 23 percent have favorable views of Congress; 69 percent unfavorable ones. On the favorable side, that’s the lowest number yet comparing the new poll to Pew Research Center polls since 1985. In the new poll, about seven in 10 across party lines express unfavorable views of Congress; staunchly negative views outnumber strongly positive ones by at least 7 to 1.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll in early October found a mere 14 percent approving of the job Congress was doing, a record low in polls stretching back to 1974. Even at other times of low public approval of Congress, however, the legislative body’s favorable numbers were significantly higher.