Would a Random Group of People Do Better Than Congress? 54% Say Yes
Only one-in-five voters think members of Congress listen to their constituents, and a majority say a random collection of people would do a better job.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 54% of Likely U.S. Voters believe a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than the current Congress. That’s up five points from December 2022, and beats the previous all-time high of 52% in July 2014. Twenty-seven percent (27%) disagree and do not think a randomly selected group could do a better job. Twenty percent (20%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,087 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on May 7-9, 2024 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research.
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