Gallup: Dems' Favorability Collapses to Record Low

Approval plummets 6 points following midterm “shellacking”

It’s been a bad few weeks for Democrats. They lost the Senate, even more seats in the House, and several stunning gubernatorial races that no one saw coming. To do so you must first lose the American people, of course, and Gallup’s most recent survey results reveal exactly that.

The president’s party has now sunk to 36% approval, an all-time low since Gallup began tracking it in 1992. Democrats’ approval rating plummeted 6 points from before the midterms, no doubt in part due to the predictable infighting that ensued in the aftermath.

With the GOP at 42%, this is the first time since 2011 that the Republican Party has been viewed more favorably than Democrats. As Gallup notes, their poll results over the last few years have tracked a “wild political ride” for both parties:

The descent in Democrats' ratings caps a wild political ride for both parties over the past two years. After President Barack Obama's re-election in 2012, the Democratic Party's favorable rating spiked to 51%, the first time either party had enjoyed majority support since 2009. However, after the post-election glow wore off, the party's image settled back down near the 45% average for the Obama presidency. Meanwhile, Americans' favorable ratings of the Republican Party collapsed to 28% during the fall 2013 federal government shutdown, the lowest such rating for either party since Gallup first asked the question in 1992.

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