Today Yahoo carried a blog entry on its "The Ticket" page by Rachel Rose Hartman titled, "Poll suggests 2012 change in power in Washington." *
In the entry Ms. Hartman sites a USA Today/Gallup poll:
"Only 24 percent of all adults surveyed in the USA Today/Gallup poll said most members of Congress deserve re-election 'the lowest percentage since Gallup began asking the question in 1991' the newspaper reports."
The entry also states, "However, the poll shows that 56 percent of adults believe their own representative deserves re-election."
Something doesn't seem quite right. A fairly substantial majority thinks most members of Congress should go, yet, albeit smaller, a majority also thinks their own representative deserves re-election. The attitude seems to be, your guy is the problem, not mine. You vote your guy out because I'm going to keep voting for my guy.
So who has the courage to follow their convictions and vote their guy out? Apparently not enough people to make any real difference. Consequently, we continue to help perpetuate a dysfunctional political process that serves the interests of career politicians to our own detriment.
* The blog entry can be retrieved from:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/poll-suggests-2012-change-power-washington-131541841.html
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