Anti-Incumbent Sentiment Near Peak Are you inclined to re- elect your representative in Congress, or are you inclined to look around for Congress, someone else to vote for?
That would seem to be at odds with recent survey results. A Washington Post/ABC News poll released this week, for instance, found that only 22% of the public said they were inclined to re-elect their representative in Congress. The all-time low (since 1990) was 17% in August 2011, just after that year’s debt-ceiling showdown. In the latest poll, two-thirds (68%) of people said they were “inclined to look around for someone else to vote for,” also a high for the Post/ABC poll.
Anti-Incumbent Sentiment Near Peak  | Are you inclined to re- elect your representative  | in Congress, or are you inclined to look around  | for Congress, someone else to vote for?  | 68%  | 44%: Look around  | Mar.  | 2014  | 45: Re-elect  | 22  | Mar.  | 2004  | May  | May  | May  | 2005 May  | May May  | 1989  | 1995 2000 2005  | 2010 May 2013  | Source: ABC News/Washington Post polls, various dates.  | Don' 't know/ no News/Washington opinion and "it depends" res ponses omitted.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 