'Toxic' election year for PA lawmakers?

A new polls finds 7 in 10 Pennsylvania voters do not approve of the job the state Legislature is doing. That does not bode well in a year when all 203 members of the state House and 25 of the 50 state Senate members face the voters.

From POLITICO:

Congress, it turns out, isn’t the only institution held in low esteem by voters this year.

According to a POLITICO review of publicly available polling data, numerous state legislatures are also bottoming out, showing off-the-charts disapproval ratings accompanied by stunning levels of voter cynicism.

It all adds up to a toxic election year brew for legislators inside and outside Washington.

The freshest example comes from Pennsylvania, where a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday surveyed the attitudes of residents and reported that just 29 percent of Pennsylvania voters said they approved of the job the state legislature is doing in Harrisburg, a slippage of 13 points since last May.

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State polls show gathering storm - David Catanese - POLITICO.com