Gallup’s 2010 Confidence in Institutions poll finds Congress ranking dead last out of the 16 institutions rated this year. Eleven percent of Americans say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress, down from 17% in 2009 and a percentage point lower than the previous low for Congress, recorded in 2008.
First place goes to the U.S. military, followed by small business, the police, and organized religion. (First Journolist and now this — a rough week for the left.) Every other institution is below 50%.
How badly is Congress doing? Voters think better of Big Business and HMOs, which both clock in at 19%, than they do of Congress. For all its efforts to shift blame to others, Congress can’t escape the public’s ire. And the presidency isn’t doing so great either. That category shows the most dramatic drop in confidence — from 51% in 2009 to 36% now. You don’t think it has anything to do with Obama, do you?
