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Pew Poll: Bad News for Incumbents
The anti-incumbent mood of the public is as high as it has been since the midterm elections of 1994.
A majority of people in this country say they do not want to see most members of Congress re-elected this November, and almost three in 10 say that about their own representative to Congress, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
The public desire for voting out incumbents - both incumbents generally and their own representative - is as high in Pew polling as it was a dozen years ago when voter anger helped the GOP take over Congress.
Fifty-three percent said they do not want most members of Congress re-elected, the poll found. In October 1994, 56 percent felt that way.
Story Continues Below Also, 28 percent said they want to see their own representative defeated in the midterm elections, compared with 29 percent in October 1994.
The survey of 1,501 adults was taken April 7-16 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
© 2006 Associated Press.
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