Bloomberg.com: U.S.: Pew Poll Finds Discontent With Bush Means Trouble for Lawmakers

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U.S.: Pew Poll Finds Discontent With Bush Means Trouble for Lawmakers

More than a third of Americans view the November elections as chance to vote against the policies of President George W. Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress, a poll by the Pew Center for the People and the Press found.Thirty-six percent of those polled said the congressional elections on Nov. 7 will be an opportunity cast a symbolic vote against the president, up from 15 percent before the last mid- term election in 2002, according to the survey by the Washington-base Pew Center.

The poll found an intensifying anti-incumbent mood among voters, with 49 percent of Americans saying they don't want most lawmakers to win re-election. That's an increase from 38 percent who held that view in 2002 and close to the 56 percent that expressed such displeasure with the status quo in Washington in 1994, when Republicans won control from Democrats.