Greg Sargent reads the latest Pew poll and sees that rank-and-file Republicans are getting fed up with the congressional GOP leadership:
The approval rating of GOP leaders among Republicans has plummeted 12 points in a month, down from 55% in February to a minority of 43% now. That’s striking.
Not only that, but approval of GOP leaders overall has dropped to 28% overall — the lowest rating for GOP leaders in 12 years of Pew polling.
In fact, approval of Republican congressional leaders has fallen from 34% in February to 28% currently, the lowest rating for GOP leaders in nearly 14 years of Pew Research surveys.
It’s a bit hard to interpret these findings. Congressional Democrats faced perennially low approval from self-identified Democrats in late 2007 and throughout 2008 because the people who’d put them in the majority expected them to deliver more in terms of stopping the war and bringing the Bush administration to its knees. Is this similar frustration that the GOP hasn’t been able to block more of Obama’s agenda? Or is it frustration that they’re not laying out constructive ideas and cutting compromises?
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