American's Anti-Incumbency Mood at High Point
According to a recent report from Pew Research FactTank, Bruce Drake said that 38% of Americans don't support reelecting their federal Congressional representatives. This percentage is at the highest point in twenty years. The report also found that 74% of Americans wish to see incumbents standing for reelection at the midterm defeated. In the last two midterm elections, 2010 and 2006, that number did not exceeded 57%. These data are taken from a Pew Research Center Survey of 1,504 adult Americans from October 9 through October 13, 2013 via landline and cell phones. TeachingWithData.org has teaching tools for understanding the voting process:
Voter Turnout in the US: http://teachingwithdata.org/resource/3243
Voting Behaviors in the 2012 Election (SETUPS): http://teachingwithdata.org/resource/3920
Election Day: http://teachingwithdata.org/resource/3147
Read more:
Online Report: http://www.people-press.org/2013/10/15/as-debt-limit-deadline-nears-concern-ticks-up-but-skepticism-persists/#anti-incumbent
Hard copy Report: http://www.people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/10-15-13%20Debt%20Ceiling%20Political%20Release.pdf
Pew Research Center: http://www.pewresearch.org/
Pew FactTank: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/
Pew Center for People and the Press: http://www.people-press.org/
Bruce Drake: http://www.pewresearch.org/author/bdrake/
Sue Hodge
About TeachingwithData.org
TeachingWithData.org is a partnership between the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN), both at the University of Michigan. The project is funded by NSF Award 0840642, George Alter (ICPSR), PI and William Frey (SSDAN), co-PI.
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