Congress, More Popular Than the President

For the first time since taking office in January, the approval rating of the 110^th Congress, led by the Democrats, has topped the President's approval rating. Congress sits at 40%, not the best approval rating in the world, but above the President's.

Still, Democrats do not have the approval of independent voters, who gave them 57% of the vote in November and helped usher them into majority status. Only 32% of them approve of Congress and 36% of Independents approve of how the Democratic leadership is handling the Iraq issue.

Interestingly enough, the problem, says the AP poll, is that the majority of Americans want Congress to force the President to put an end to the war in Iraq. Basically, the Democrats aren't any more popular than Bush because the population is even more anti-war than the Democratic leadership.