POLL: 72% of GOP Voters Say Republicans In Congress Out of Touch With Their Base

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 72% of Republican voters continue to believe that GOP members of Congress have lost touch with the party base throughout the nation over the past several years. Twenty-one percent (21%) disagree and say they've done a good job representing Republican values.

This high level of skepticism among GOP voters is basically unchanged since just after Election Day 2008 and in surveys since then.

By contrast, 61% of Democratic voters think their representatives in Congress have done a good job of representing Democratic values over the past several years. Only 29% believe Democrats in Congress have lost touch with Democratic voters throughout the nation.

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