claim: "congress as a whole is less popular than it’s been since polling was invented."
author: jim cooper
evidence_1: "congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented." -  jim cooper quotes from brainyquote.com.
evidence_2: may 15, 2015 ... it's composed of the house of representatives and the senate. ... but according  to multiple pollsters, congress has never been less popular than in recent years.  ... congress is lower than at any time since the venerable polling firm began ...  made a variant of this point when he told cbs, "we should not be ...
evidence_3: the united states electoral college is a body of electors established by the  united states ... the results are certified by the states and d.c. to congress,  where they are ..... since 1836, statewide winner-take-all popular voting for  electors has been ..... in a contingent election for president or vice president as it  is not a state.
evidence_4: the number of representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty ... counting  the whole number of persons in each state, excluding indians not taxed. ... the  articles of confederation created the first national congress to represent the ... in  the u.s. were citizens and that any state that denied or abridged the voting rights  of ...
evidence_5: may 9, 2013 ... this low level of approval for congress, from a may 2-7 gallup survey, ...  americans in all three groups have been about equally displeased with ... toward  their own representative than toward congress as a whole, ... americans do not  give congress high marks on the job it is doing, and .... polling matters.