Poll Tracker

After suffering two straight beatings at the polls in 2006 and 2008, Republicans in Congress are continuing their downhill slide, according to a Gallup poll conducted Dec. 12-14. They even have the unhappy choice of deciding which number they think is worse - hitting a new Gallup low in approval ratings, or seeing that even President Bush rates higher than they do.

The job approval rating for congressional Republicans is 25 percent compared to 29 percent for Bush and 37 percent for their Democratic colleagues.