political poll bemusement

[jrtom]

This page contains the results of several recent political polls, a number of whose questions relate to the ongoing US Congressional corruption investigations.

Some of the more interesting results:

• Respondents tend to believe that their own reps are less beholden to donors, lobbyists, and "special interests" than other people's reps. (This may actually be true, as a population measure. But I'd like to see the distribution of responses.)
  
• Federal-level officials are considered to be more likely to be corrupt than state or local officials.
  
• Democrats are considered to be better at dealing with corruption.
  
• The same percentages of respondents said that Dems and Reps are considered to have "higher ethical standards"...but in the _same survey_, Republicans are considered to be more (financially) corrupt. Go figure that one out.
  

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[fdmts.livejournal.com]

Pick up the current Atlantic Monthly. They've got a decent "State of the Union" center section which offers several different analyses of the current mood of the electorate.