Approval rating of Democrats in Congress signals major change is needed. [View all]

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2026/05/approval-rating-of-democrats-in.html

It's 19%.

The difference between the approval rating for Democrats in Congress, and the polling data which shows the formation of a blue tsunami on the way in November is sending a message to which Democrats must pay close attention if they are to continue winning elections, especially down the road toward 2028. We're going to win the mid-term elections, and in spite of media bias that includes the overanalysis and over-reporting of insignificant changes which mean nothing, will not only gain at least 25 seats in the House (I'm thinking 45 might not be overly optimistic) but we will also get the majority in the Senate. That's not overly optimistic, that's just looking at day to day polling data without the media spin. We're going to pick up two or three seats that will "shock" the clueless media.

But it's not because we laid out a great plan for doing so. Look at the difference between the approval rating and the generic ballot. We will win because voters, especially a huge percentage of independents, have finally realized that electing Trump as President twice was the most ignorant and stupid political move Americans have ever made in our history, and he has to be taken down before he completely destroys everything this country stands for.

It's pretty easy to look at those first two years of the Biden administration and consider them a success in terms of the legislation that got passed. We had the strongest economy in 60 years, with low unemployment, and steady growth of our gross national product, healthy and due completely to Biden's economic policy. He managed to fix the major damage that Trump had done to our COVID recovery, in fact, and as a party, the Democrats got some things done.

But, did we get done those things for which Democrats have been advocating and pushing for a decade or more? And did we enforce the law against the criminal acts of the Trump administration, bring him and his cronies to justice and save this country from the disaster we are now facing? Did we get big money out of politics? Did we get the health care reform that we have been pushing for more than a decade now, that single-payer health care system that will actually make medical care afforable and accessible to all Americans without robbing us blind by the profiteering that goes on?

The reality of the situation is that we need to win this midterm election in order to stop Trump and have anything close to a chance at repairing the damage he has done to everything American, including our reputation in the world, our economy, and to the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of the American people. So we are going to support Democratic party candidates in the midterm elections.

But I think the indications about where the party needs to go after that are pretty clear. Graham Plattner is one good example of the kind of challenge new leadership is bringing to the table. It seems that candidates backed by David Hogg's Leaders We Deserve, especially in state legislative primaries, have been successful without having the kind of money behind them that some old liners have. Julianna Stratton, another progressive who was an underdog in the Democratic primary for the Senate seat being vacated by old school, old liner Dick Durbin, and who ran against big money, old line establishment Democrats and old school endorsements, won the nomination and will easily win that seat. So Durbin, a good ole boy, old school politician afraid of risk and bold action will be replaced by a new leadership progressive who is not afraid to kick some Republican ass.