US polls finds 73pc unhappy with Congress

A CNN poll says 43% are unenthused about going to the polls for US mid-term legislative elections. Source: AAP

A US poll suggests 73 per cent of people feel Congress has done practically nothing good for the country since the November 2012 elections.

Congress has approved 58 laws since its new session began in January, the lowest total since 1947.

Divided between a House of Representatives dominated by the Republicans and a Senate with a Democratic majority, congress was unable last October to avoid a 16-day partial government shutdown due to the politicians' inability to reach a budget agreement.

Congress has also been unable to move forward on finalising an immigration reform package, another bill that has been stymied for months.

The disenchantment comes before the mid-term legislative elections in November 2014.

The CNN poll, which has an error margin of +/- 3 per cent, found that 43 per cent of respondents are currently unenthused about the possibility of going to the polls, compared with 25 per cent four years ago.

In the survey, which was conducted in mid-December, 49 per cent of respondents said they intended to vote for Republicans and 44 per cent said they intended to vote for Democrats.

Two months ago, 50 per cent of registered voters said that they intended to vote for Democratic candidates in the legislative elections, compared with 42 per cent who favoured the Republicans.

The six-percentage-point decline for the Democrats occurred during the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act, President Abreact Obama's major domestic initiative.

Persistent problems with the website that is at the heart of the AC's insurance exchanges have held down the number of people who have been able to sign up for "Obamacare".

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