Politics
The Democratic and Republican Parties Hit a New (Combined) Low
Philip Bump, THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—For the first time since Gallup began tracking this data in 1992, neither the Democratic nor Republican parties pull more than 40 percent approval ratings from Americans.
The cynical response here is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. But the more interesting question is: Why?
The trend is not the smooth decline that you might expect. It’s punctuated by rises and falls — the latter of which have been rather steep at points.
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