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Snapshot: Congress Approval Still Low Heading Into Midterms.

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Byline: Lydia Saad

Synopsis: Congressional job approval stands at 21% in October, largely unchanged after the Brett Kavanaugh hearings but improved from lows earlier this year.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With less than a month to go until the midterm elections, Gallup finds 21% of U.S. adults approving and 73% disapproving of the way Congress is handling its job. The latest approval rating is similar to the 19% recorded last month, but is higher than the average 17% for the previous nine months of 2018. It is also the first time congressional approval has topped 20% since the early months of the Trump presidency. Before that, it had not reached this high since October 2012.

The poll was conducted Oct. 1-10, as the Senate debated about and -- ultimately, on Oct. 6 -- confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court by nearly a party-line vote. The job score for Congress was similar in both halves of the poll, suggesting the vote didn't immediately affect public views of the legislative body.

Background: Most of the variation in congressional job approval over the past two years, since President Donald Trump took office, has been a result of changes among Republicans. Republicans were especially positive about the Republican-led Congress starting in February 2017 after Trump took office, as well as in...

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