It’s been a fractious summer for Congress: the United States came close to the prospect of defaulting on our debt for political reasons instead of economic ones, there’s another looming budget crisis when they return, and Americans hate the legislative body more than ever. So it’s not a huge surprise in this era of lightning quick political reaction that Americans are swinging back to the party they just kicked out of the House, according to new Gallup data released Friday and a PPP(D)/Daily Kos survey from earlier in the week.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=108425