Sixty two percent of the respondents agreed that "no matter how bad things are, Congress can always make them worse." Majorities agreed with that statement in all demographic and partisan groups, with even Democrats showing a 53 percent agreement figure.

These results are consistent with other measures of public skepticism compiled in recent months by Rasmussen, who notes:

"The only exception is the nation's Political Class. Seventy-five percent (75%) of voters in the political Mainstream say if something is not going well, Congress can always make it worse, but 63% of the Political Class disagree (see more on the Political Class-Mainstream divide).

"Other recent results have found that 60% believe most members of Congress don't care what their constituents think. Also, voters are evenly divided as to whether a group randomly selected from the phone book could do as good a job as the current Congress.