Whatever its charms, the 2012 campaign isn’t doing much for politics as a career choice: Seven in 10 Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll express an unfavorable opinion of politicians, underscoring the public’s broad discontent with its leadership choices in general. …
Politicians score well behind their inevitable companions – pundits, seen unfavorably by 59 percent (with 20 percent undecided, suggesting that to some extent it’s an unfamiliar term), and public opinion polls, which draw an even split. (Rating of polls, of course, are only among people who agree to participate in them.) [cont.]
Gary Langer, ABC News