Salon.com > Nickelback http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 00:14:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Poll: Congress less popular than cockroaches, Nickelback http://www.salon.com/2013/01/08/poll_congress_less_popular_than_cockroaches_nickelback/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/08/poll_congress_less_popular_than_cockroaches_nickelback/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:04:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13164551 Public Policy Polling had a little bit of fun with its latest survey of how Americans view Congress, and found that Congress is less popular than a number of things that are terrible. "We decided to take a different approach and test Congress' popularity against 26 different things. And what we found is that Congress is less popular than cockroaches, traffic jams, and even Nickelback," Tom Jensen of PPP writes.

The poll finds that Congress has a 9 percent favorability rating, with 85 percent of voters having a negative view of it. Among the things more popular than Congress: lice, Brussels sprouts, NFL replacement refs, colonoscopies, root canals, traffic jams, cockroaches, carnies and more:

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