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Poll Reveals Voter Preferences On Who Should Control Congress

Democrat or Republican, most voters dislike both parties, according to a Fox News Survey.

It’s the lowest approval rating in five years.

Only 18% of voters approve of the job U.S. Congress is doing. Last year it was 19%. In June of 2021, it was at 34%. Then, 47% of Democrats, 34% of independents, and 21% of Republicans approved of Congress. Today, is only 22% of Democrats, 10% of Independents and 16% of Republicans.

If the election were held today, who would win?

The Fox polls showed 47% of voters have a positive view of the Democratic Party. Even less for the Republican Party, where only 43% think the same

87% of registered Democrats have a favorable view of their party. 83% of Republicans have a positive view of the Republican Party. The group that can change the outlook on Congress, the Independents, were more pleased with the Democratic Party at 39% compared to the GOP at 27%.

“This data shows that while the Democratic Party is viewed negatively, voters are even less favorably inclined toward the Republican Party,” said Fox pollster Daron Shaw.

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The economy wasn’t the top issue. While 88% of voters said it was one of their top concerns, the top issue was personal rights and freedoms, at 89%. Coming in third place was health care, at 85%, followed by a concern of threats to free and fair elections, at 83%.

Tax rates finished in fifth place, (79%), sixth place was crime rates (79%), seventh place was illegal immigration (73%), eighth place was the Supreme Court (71%), abortion policy took ninth place (70%), while tenth place went to the Israel-Hamas war (69%), 11th place was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (69%), and climate change was at the bottom of the list, at 62%.

Among GOP voters, the economy was the top issue at 96%, illegal immigration (92%), higher crime rates (91%), taxes (88%), and threats to rights (88%). 

Democrats’ top issues were threats to personal rights (90%), abortion (89%), climate change (89%), health care (89%), and the Supreme Court (86%). 

Independents said their top issues were threats to personal rights (87%), followed by health care (86%), the economy (85%), taxes (85%), and higher crime rates (83%).

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