Originally Posted by filtherton

I'm not questioning the validity of the data, I'm questioning the way you've interwoven it with a fairly subjective narrative about an America that may or may not actually exist. You can't really draw the conclusions you draw from the data you presented without more data. Despite what certain folks might want you to believe, Obama's solidly centrist. There are just as many progressive reasons to dislike him as there are conservative ones (the difference between the two being that the progressive reasons are actually grounded more in reality than hyperbolic scare tactics). That doesn't mean that the country will go overwhelmingly right this November.

Besides, Obama isn't even up for election this year. Why would you expect that his poll numbers indicate anything significant about upcoming Congressional elections? You should focus on Congress' numbers, but beyond that you should focus on the numbers for individual congresspeople who are actually running for office, because while most people hate congress, far fewer people actually hate their own congressperson.