Many Americans Feel Congressional Incumbents Don't Deserve Re-election

Elected officials should be getting nervous about their re-election prospects -- according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, support for congressional incumbents has fallen to an all-time low.

The survey found that only 7 percent of likely U.S. voters think Congress is doing a good or excellent job, while64 percent now rate Congresss performance as poor.

Even more disheartening for congressmen, only22 percent think their representative is the best person for the job and only 29 percent believe he or she deserves re-election. Both are new lows in surveying going back to November 2009.Forty-six percent say their local member of Congress is not the best person for the job, while 32 percent are undecided.

Similarly, 43 percent think their representative does not deserve re-election.

The survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted March 18-19. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.