Support for reelecting congressional incumbents at record lows: Gallup

A record low percentage of U.S. voters support the reelection of their own representative or of most sitting members of Congress, according to a poll released Wednesday, less than a week before the midterm elections.

In the latest Gallup poll, 43 percent of voters said they think their own representative deserves reelection. In polls going back to 1994, the number has never dropped below 50 percent, according to the Gallup report.

When asked whether most members of Congress deserve to be reelected, 15 percent of the voters said they do. This is also a record low in the Gallup poll.

The poll also showed that 51 percent of Republican voters said their own representative deserves to be reelected. That’s higher than the 45 percent of Democratic voters and 36 percent of independent voters who held the same belief.

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