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>> Individual House Representatives usually have high approval ratings from people who voted them in while Congress as a whole has a terrible approval rating.
by aldonius 3y ago
>> Individual House Representatives usually have high approval ratings from people who voted them in while Congress as a whole has a terrible approval rating.
> Yes, that's true. (And the Senate is no different.) What does it mean?
Red voters tend to live in red seats & states, blue voters tend to live in blue seats and states.
- pdonis 3y ago> Red voters tend to live in red seats & states, blue voters tend to live in blue seats and states. This is a tautology. It doesn't change anything I said.
- aldonius 3y agoSure. I still think it's the most intuitive way to describe the first-order explanation for why people are happy with their specific representatives, but not Congress as a whole.